On February 9, 2024, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Virtual Creative Artists, LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,339,576 unpatentable. The '576 patent is directed towards a process for creating and publishing media content on an electronic exchange. It had been asserted against Meta, Bumble, Pinterest, Snap, TikTok, and Tumblr.

View district court litigations by Virtual Creative Artists. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Eric Buresh and Nick Apel of Erise IP, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.