On November 10, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. B# On Demand, LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,553,880 invalid. Owned and asserted by B# On Demand, LLC, an NPE, the ’880 patent discloses a system that transmits a catalog of electronic files to a requesting user, sets up customer accounts, processes payments from customers to establish file access authorizations, and enables transmission of user-selected files to customers. It had been asserted against Spotify.

View B# On Demand’s district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified is represented by Larissa Bifano of DLA Piper, and in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.