Overall Trend Figure 1: Patent disputes in the District Court and PTAB for Q1-Q3 in 2015 have increased 9.8% as compared to Q1-Q3 2014.   Figure 2: Patent disputes have steadily grown since 2012. *ITC filings since 2012 comprise only a nominal amount of patent disputes and are therefore not included here.   Figure 3: Patent Disputes by Sector…

On Thursday, October 15, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted another petition filed by Unified Patents Inc. against a patent owned by iMTX Strategic, LLC (iMTX) on two grounds on all 23 challenged claims. Unified filed the petition to protect content delivery technologies from questionable NPE assertions. iMTX claims its patent covers...

On October 14, 2015, Unified Patents (“Unified”) petitioned for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,640,183, owned and asserted by Convergent Media Solutions, LLC (“CMS”), an entity reported to be controlled by Acacia Research (@Acacia_Research), to protect content delivery technologies.  To date, CMS has filed four cases against content delivery companies and asserted multiple similar related patents.  In those cases, CMS…

Please join Unified and the George Washington University School of Law for an informative roundtable discussing the post-grant practice at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and how post-grant proceedings have changed the practice of patent law with patent field leaders from academia, industry and government. To RSVP, email mandy.murphy@wilmerhale.com. Speakers include: • Don Coulman…

On September 28, 2015 Unified Patents (“Unified”) filed a second inter partes review (IPR) against patent owner Qurio Holdings, Inc. (“Qurio”) to protect content delivery technologies from NPE assertions. Qurio claims its patent covers distributing television programs to personal communication devices. Qurio has filed 6 cases against content delivery companies and asserted multiple patents, most recently…