On November 14, 2022, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Office's final decision, in a summary Rule 36 affirmance, confirmed that AlterWAN, Inc.’s U.S. Patent 9,667,534 was unpatentable. The ‘534 patent, directed to routing packets via VPN, had been asserted in district court litigation against Amazon Web Services.

View AlterWAN's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified was represented by Angela Oliver, Raghav Bajaj, and Debbie McComas of Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen, Ashraf Fawzy, and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

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