On December 31st, Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner Personalized Media Communications (PMC) in order to protect Content Delivery technologies from invalid NPE assertions. PMC claims its patents cover the encryption and decryption of digital content. Most recently, PMC sued Amazon in September, 2013. On September 22, Amazon filed an…
Unified Patents Establishes a Defensive Patent Zone for Electronic Payments
Unified Patents Establishes a Defensive Patent Zone for Electronic Payments Los Altos, CA, December 23, 2014 – Unified Patents, which provides operating companies a solution for deterring NPE (Non-Practicing Entity) or patent troll threats, announced today the formation of an Electronic Payments Zone. This technology “no-fly” Zone will make it more difficult for NPEs with…
Unified Patent's CEO Wins The Recorder's Innovator Award.
On October 24, 2014 The Recorder named Unified Patents Founder & CEO Kevin Jakel as one of the first recipients of its annual Innovator Awards. The Recorder’s Innovator Award is granted to “honor original approaches to improving delivery of legal services to clients of all kinds.” Other recipients of the Innovator Award include prominent lawyers…
Unified Invalidates Acacia Owned Compression Technology Patent
On September 19th 2014, Unified Patents invalidated U.S. Patent 5,414,650 in Ex Parte Reexamination. The reexamination was initially filed on July 23, 2013. The ‘650 Patent was owned by Compression Technology Solutions LLC, a subsidiary of Acacia Research Group. Compression Technology Solutions asserted the ‘650 patent in three litigations. The total list of defendants includes…