FireNet Technologies patent held unpatentable

On March 18, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Firenet Technologies, LLC holding all claims of U.S. Patent 8,892,600 (claims 1-17 and 19-23) unpatentable. This is an IPinvestments Group entity. The ’600 patent, generally directed to a proxy firewall system for protecting devices within a network. FireNet had previously sued Kemp Technologies, Fortinet, Citrix, A10 Networks, and Fujitsu.

View FireNet’s district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.