On March 19, 2015, in an inter partes review (“IPR”) filed by Unified Patents against Clouding IP, LLC (“Clouding IP”), the PTAB invalidated all challenged claims from U.S. Patent 6,738,799 B2 (the ‘799 patent). Clouding IP claims its patent covers generating update files from an earlier file version, and asserted the ‘799 patent  against 6 companies in 2012, 4 companies…

On April 15, Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner C-Cation Technologies, LLC (C-Cation) in order to protect Content Delivery technologies from invalid NPE assertions. C-Cation claims its patent covers the ability to distribute data and content to end users from a central controller.  Recently, C-Cation filed two cases in February…

On April 18, Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner iMTX Strategic, LLC (iMTX) in order to protect Content Delivery technologies from invalid NPE assertions. iMTX claims its patent covers an entertainment device receiving internet media over the internet.  iMTX has filed 9 cases against content delivery companies in 2015. Unified filed its own IPR challenging…

On March 11, Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner Hall Data Sync Technologies LLC  (Hall Data) in order to protect Cloud Storage technologies from invalid NPE assertions. Hall Data claims its patent covers database synchronization using timestamps. Hall Data Sync filed 6 cases against cloud storage companies in January 2015. Unified…

Figure 1: February 2015 had 10% more District Court cases initiated than last year and 9% more than last month. Figure 2: High-Tech had the majority of District Court and PTAB initiated disputes. Figure 3: NPE litigation made up 65% of February 2015 initiated District Court cases, compared to 68% in February 2014 and 58% in January 2015. Figure 4:…