Unified is Hiring: New full-time Senior Patent Counsel position

Senior Patent Counsel - Click HERE to apply

Unified is again growing its legal department and seeks to add another experienced, registered patent attorney to the team to prosecute and litigate matters in-house. Pay is competitive and counsel will have flexible hours and may work remotely. Ideal applicants should be historically underrepresented in the patent field, and should generally have at least five years of firm or other relevant experience practicing before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) working on post-grant petitions (IPR, PGR, and CBM), reexaminations, or other administrative drafting and litigation experience. Deposition and oral hearing experience are preferred.

Applicants should have a strong technical background and be willing to explore diverse new technologies; experience with video codecs, coding, cryptography, compression, signals, wireless communications, or other algorithmic subject matter is a plus. Patent examination experience is a plus; a registration number is a plus; clerking experience is a plus; familiarity with ongoing appellate issues affecting PTAB practice is a plus.

Track LIEs (Litigation … ) in Unified’s Portal

As part of ongoing deterrence activities, Unified’s Portal is introducing the most comprehensive tracker of Litigation Investment Entities (LIEs). Tracking and reporting will be conducted on at least a quarterly basis and will attempt to shed light on this growing but nonetheless little-understood part of the patent litigation landscape. 

The LIEs tracker will consist of two components - a field for NPE Aggregator or NPE parent company of multiple NPEs, and the second is an option if a case is backed by a secured interest or by third-party financing. 

Users can use the plaintiff specific filters to search for entities such as IP Edge or Acacia. Using the Third Party Financing filter, a list of cases will be generated where a secured interest or known third party has an investment into a patent that has been litigated.

In addition to being able to search for NPE Aggregators and Third Party Financing Commitments, the case deal page will provide flags to understand if an entity is part of NPE Aggregator and Financed, such as Ridgeview IP LLC.

Also in the tracker, users can understand the true impact of LIEs and NPE Aggregators by using the Annual Report Tool for a graphical point of view. 

Click HERE for more information on the methodology and to read through Unified’s first LIEs Report. To view the LIEs Tracker in Portal, please click here.

Wi-Fi SEP Zone launched by Unified

Unified Patents is happy to announce a new zone to deter patent abuse in the Standard Essential Patent (SEP) space through its newly launched Wi-Fi 6 Zone. This new Zone brings together a fast-growing network of members to address asymmetries in licensing Wi-Fi 6 standard essential patents and creates a fair and transparent patent licensing process around core patents supporting the next wave of consumer technology growth.

The current Wi-Fi patent landscape is complicated, to say the least. Sisvel’s launched Wi-Fi 6 pool, composed mostly of Huawei patents, constitutes less than 14% of the SEPs needed based on our OPAL Landscape tool at the time of posting.  Also, implementing Wi-Fi 6 requires licenses to Wi-Fi 1-5. However, only one common licensor exists between Sisvel’s Wi-Fi 1-5 and Wi-Fi 6 pools - Philips.

According to the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wi-Fi 6 will represent almost $265B, or nearly one-third, of Wi-Fi-Enabled GDP by 2025. Given these economic implications and the ubiquitous nature of Wi-Fi in our everyday lives, members need the tools and data necessary to negotiate FRAND licenses in good faith.

Zone members get access to Unified’s tools – the Wi-Fi landscaping (OPAL) tool and the standard submission (OPEN) tool. Unified has also commissioned an economic report (OVAL) to determine FRAND for Wi-Fi 6, due out Q2 2023.

Unified’s OPAL tool objectively scores the statistical essentiality of patent publications to Wi-Fi 6 functionality. Experts manually evaluated over three thousand patent families to create the AI training set and scored them all for statistical essentiality. Full-text search is available via patent, application number, family ID, filing date, etc.

Unified’s OPEN tool provides an indexed and full-text searchable repository of all 122,000 IEEE Wi-Fi submissions, including the 7000+ technical submissions to the Wi-Fi 6 working group.

Finally, Unified’s OVAL tool is a commissioned economic report to determine a Wi-Fi 6 FRAND. Using Innovatio, similar cases, and the likely changes in Wi-Fi 6 chip prices, the economic report will determine the incremental value of new Wi-Fi 6 applications and products. 

Unified Patents’ SEP Wi-Fi 6 zone provides members with the tools and data necessary for impactful FRAND negotiations and to deter invalid or unessential assertions.

We Are Hiring! Unified seeks Full Stack Developer

Unified Patents is a private, subscription-based company that is disrupting the patent market. The team is searching for a full stack web developer who can develop both client and server software preferably in the Bay Area.

Responsibilities include working on both the back-end infrastructure and front-end Web UIs of various projects. Design, implement and maintain scalable APIs. Build and maintain data pipelines and schedulers to provide precise and up-to-date data to customers. Translate designer mock-ups and wireframes into efficient front-end code. Discover and optimize performance bottlenecks across existing infrastructure hosted on cloud services.

The position requires a bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field. Unified provides competitive compensation and benefits as well as a flexible work environment. For more details about the position and instructions on how to apply, view the full job listing.

New Speakers and Sponsors Announced for the Wiesn IP Forum 2022

We are happy to announce our latest speakers and sponsors for our much-anticipated Wiesn IP Forum 2022, in collaboration with Adamson & Partners. Along with speakers from Nokia, Siemens, CureVac, and more, this year’s Wiesn IP Forum is shaping up to be a great event!

Our first panel session discussing Patent Litigation in Europe – Impact of the UPC has added Adrian Eggen, Director of Patent Counsel for Philip Morris International.

John M. Baird, Partner at Duane Morris LLP, will be moderating our centerpiece panel, What’s UPComing? New Developments in the United Patent Court, which will offer essential insights on the Unified Patent Court. We also have Stefan Luginbühl, Head of European Legal Affairs at the EPO, joining on the panel.

Our final panel will discuss Standard Essential Patents and Patent Pools and will be led by Tim Pohlmann, CEO of IPLytics, and will bring Laurie Fitzgerald, Senior VP of Avanci, on to the panel.

Many thanks go out to our sponsors!

This FREE event will take place Monday 19th – Tuesday 20th September 2022 in Munich, and will bring together revered IP leaders to network and share the latest industry insights.

Seats are limited. For more information or to reserve your spot, please visit Wiesn IP Forum 2022 or email info@unifiedpatents.com. For sponsorship opportunities, please visit HERE.

We look forward to seeing you there!