On February 5, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, in an inter partes review brought by Unified Patents, held all challenged claims unpatentable. IPR2015-01254 was brought by Unified to protect, inter alia, content delivery technologies. The challenged patent, U.S. Patent 5,930,444, claimed to have invented audiovisual recording and playback devices (e.g., TiVo-style recorders) that provide substantially simultaneous recording…

On February 3, 2016, Unified Patents Inc. petitioned for inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent 8,788,090, owned and asserted by Rothschild Connected Devices Innovations, LLC. The patent, described by the Washington Post as one of the worst four patents of 2015, has been asserted by Rothschild in at least fifty-seven cases in the past year, mostly in the…

On Friday, January 15, 2016, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted another petition filed by Unified Patents Inc. against a patent owned by TransVideo Electronics, Ltd. (TransVideo) on grounds covering all claims. Unified filed the petition to protect, among others, content delivery technologies from questionable NPE assertions. TransVideo claims its patent covers, among other things, a global digital…

On January 11, 2016, Unified Patents Inc. petitioned for inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent 7,173,651, owned and asserted by FO2GO LLC.  FO2GO has filed fifteen cases in the District of Delaware, asserting one patent with five claims.  FO2GO claims its patents cover digital photo cloud storage applications, among other things. Unified independently petitioned for…

Unified tracks all U.S. patent disputes, categorizing each by entity type and technology sector, and provides statistics, analytics, and regular reports on the state of patent disputes.  Unified is also the only independent entity that has challenged patent aggregators—entities that repeatedly purchase and seek to monetize patents. In that vein, we are happy to announce…