On February 13, Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner Marathon Patent Group’s (NASDAQ: MARA) subsidiary Vantage Point Technology, Inc.  (Vantage Point) in order to protect Cloud Storage technologies from invalid NPE assertions. Vantage Point claims its patent covers downloading to a browser a web page that was selected by the web…

NOTE:    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/january-2015-patent-dispute-report-static/   Figure 1: January 2015 had 36% more District Court cases initiated than last year and 3% more than last month. Figure 2:…

On February 12, the PTAB instituted Unified’s Inter-Partes Review (IPR) against Dragon Intellectual Property, LLC (Dragon)’s Patent #5,930,444 (‘444 patent) on all challenged claims. Dragon claims its patent covers streaming media recording and playback and filed cases against 10 companies on December 20, 2013.  Unified’s IPR challenges claims 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 13 and 14…

NOTE:    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/2014-patent-dispute-report-and-analytics/ Figure 1:  In 2014, patent disputes reached the second highest level in history, 6,674. Figure 2:  In 2014, PTAB filings increased, as litigation…

NOTE:   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/2014-ptab-report/ Figure 1: 1675 PTAB petitions were filed in 2014, more than double the petitions filed in 2013. Figure 2:  Over half…