Global automotive leaders now members of Unified Patents newest defensive Zone Los Altos, CA, June 9, 2015 – Unified Patents announced today that Toyota and Honda have joined its recently established Automotive Zone. The Automotive Zone is Unified Patents’ fifth Zone, each of which provides strategic protection to subscribed members. The others include Wireless, Cloud…

Figure 1: May 2015 had 10% more District Court cases initiated than last year and 45.7% more than last month.   Figure 2: High-Tech had the majority of District Court and P TAB initiated disputes.   Figure 3: NPE litigation made up 69.8% of May 2015 initiated District Court cases, compared to 57.9% in May…

Figure 1: April 2015 litigation dropped 28% from last month.  For the first third of 2015, litigation is down 7.6% from the first third of 2014.   Figure 2: High-Tech had the majority of District Court and PTAB initiated disputes.   Figure 3: NPE litigation made up 62.6% of April 2015 initiated District Court cases, compared to 76.2%…

On May 14, 2015 Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems, LLC (Rothschild) in order to protect Content Delivery technologies from invalid NPE assertions. Rothschild claims its patent covers storing media content and delivering requested media content to a consumer device.  Rothschild has filed 10 cases against content delivery…