On September 3, 2020, the Central Reexamination Unit of the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Unified Patents' request for ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 7,426,715, owned and asserted by Sound View Innovations, LLC, finding substantial new questions of patentability for all challenged claims. The request was filed in an effort to protect Open Source technologies from invalid NPE assertions. The ’715 patent generally relates to shutting down a plurality of software components in an ordered sequence. Sound View recently asserted this patent against Walmart, Vudu, and Delta Air Lines.

View district court litigations by Sound View. Read the order below. Unified is represented by Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,558, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.