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Unified Files to Invalidate Personalized Media Communications

On December 31st, Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner Personalized Media Communications (PMC) in order to protect Content Delivery technologies from invalid NPE assertions.  PMC claims its patents cover the encryption and decryption of digital content.  Most recently, PMC sued Amazon in September, 2013. On September 22, Amazon filed an…

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Unified Patent’s 2014 Litigation Report

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NOTE: SOME HAVE HAD PROBLEMS VIEWING THE GRAPHS SINCE THEY ARE DYNAMICALLY GENERATED. IT CAN SOMETIMES TAKE UP TO 30 SECONDS FOR THE POST TO SHOW THE GRAPHS. IF YOU CONTINUE TO HAVE PROBLEMS WE HAVE CREATED A STATIC VERSION OF THE REPORT HERE.  http://unifiedpatents.com/2014patentlitigationreport/ Figure 1: The number of 2014 patent litigation filings approached…

Corporate Counsel - Q3 Patent Litigation: Less of It, But Still a Lot

On Novermber 7.2014 Corporate Counsel published an article titled “Q3 Patent Litigation: Less of It, But Still a Lot.” The article discusses Unified Patents recent Q3 litigation report. Unified Patent’s COO Shawn Ambwani was quoted as saying “We are still observing historically high numbers for overall patent litigation.” Read the Corporate Counsel article here. Read…

Managing Intellectual Property - NPEs Not Fairing Worse At PTAB Than Other Companies

On November 4.2014 Managing Intellectual Property published an article on the recent IPR study by Unified Patents COO Shawn Ambwani and Santa Clara Law Professor Brian Love. “A new study of inter partes review data reveals that petitions challenging NPE owned patents are more like to be instituted but have claims invalidated at a lower…