On April 4, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued the public version of a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Fat Statz, LLC holding all of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,757,066 unpatentable and denying the patent owner’s motion to amend. The ’066 patent is generally directed to a behavior management system that allows users to track and compare fitness and health-related data. The ‘066 patent was asserted against Samsung in early 2020.

While the patent owner attempted to thwart the IPR by raising an RPI issue, the Board held that the patent owner’s evidence was insufficient to put the issue into dispute. The Board further noted that the patent owner does not allege that any time bar or estoppel applies in this case and declined to reach the issue, relying on the precedential decision in SharkNinja Operating LLC v. iRobot Corp., IPR2020-00734, Paper 11 (Oct. 6, 2020).

View district court litigations by Fat Statz. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jung Hahm, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.