On November 29, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,271,980, owned by III Holdings 12, LLC, an NPE. The '980 patent is generally directed to managing jobs in a multi-node computing environment. The ‘980 patent is purportedly related to open source container orchestration systems for automating computer applications, such as Kubernetes.

View district court litigations by Intellectual Ventures. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Cono Carrano, Ryan Stronczer, and Sohrab Hajarian of Akin Gump and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Ellyar Barazesh.