On November 5, 2014 Unified Patents filed an Inter Partes Revew (IPR) against a patent owned by a subsidiary of Intellectual Ventures to protect the Cloud Storage Zone from invalid patents. Intellectual Ventures is a well known NPE (link) which has a subsidiary called, III Holdings 1, LLC (link). As part our ongoing assignment tracking…

On October 31, 2014 Forbes published an interview with Unified Patent’s COO Shawn Ambwani titeld “Combat Your Fear Of Non-Practicing Entities.” The interview discussed Unified’s unique approached to deterring non-practicing entities (NPEs) who assert low quality patents against companies both large and small. Mr. Ambwani was quoted as saying “Unified offers a deterrent service on…

On October 28, 2014 Ars Technica titles an article “New data shows more signs that patent troll suits are in decline.” “‘This provides a much clearer picture of why things went down, since it is clear litigation in general did not change—only NPE litigation in high tech had a great tumble,’ wrote Unified Patents COO…

On October 28, 2014 Bloomberg titled an article “Patent Lawsuits as Business Model Erodes as Rules Tighten.” “’Software patents are a large percentage of litigation in high tech and there’s a lot of uncertainty as to whether the patents are valid or not,’ said Shawn Ambwani, chief operating officer for Los Altos, California-based Unified Patents”…

On October 28, 2014 Intellectual Asset Management titled an article “NPE suits down a massive 35% in the third quarter of the year as Alice and the AIA take their toll.” Unified Patents COO Shawn Ambwani was quoted as saying “My guess would be that NPEs are very fragile when it comes to asserting if…