On May 15, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 6,965,920, owned and asserted by Peter Henrik Pedersen. The '920 patent is generally directed to the specification and management of how messages are distributed to recipients. The patent has been asserted against several companies including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Zoho Corp., Salesforce, Oracle, Adobe, Intuit, Wix.com, Zendesk, and others.

View district court litigations by Pedersen. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Jon Bowser, Angela Oliver, and Matt Beck of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.