On June 30, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Datacloud Technologies, LLC holding all of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,560,613 unpatentable. Owned by DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity, the ‘613 patent relates generally to disambiguating file types on a computer system. The patent has been asserted against several companies broadly based on the use of the Linux kernel KVM and QEMU modules as well as cloud services and networking products, including Box, Extreme Networks, F5 Networks, 1&1 Ionos, Wix.com, Squarespace, and Charter Communications. This filing was a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in the Open Source zone.

View district court litigations by DataCloud Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Drew Sommer and Kyle Chen of Greenberg Traurig, and by in-house counsel, Jung Hahm, Roshan Mansinghani, and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.