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…

On September 22, 2015 Unified Patents (“Unified”) filed an inter partes review (IPR) against a patent assigned to 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, most recently filing in June 2015. Unified independently petitioned for IPR challenging claims…

On September 17, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted another petition filed by Unified Patents (Unified) against a patent owned by Hall Data Sync Technologies LLC (Hall Data) on all challenged claims.  Unified filed on March 11, 2015 to protect Cloud Storage technologies from questionable NPE assertions. Hall Data claims its patent covers database…

Unified has published its own study of institution success rates for top law firms at the PTAB. While prior studies have focused on case-level statistics by law firm, this report adds further insight by providing claim-level statistics and distinguishing between decisions on the merits from decisions on procedural grounds. Institution Decisions on the Merits (as…

On August 4, 2015, in an inter parts review (“IPR”) filed by Unified Patents (“Unified”) against Vantage Point Technology, Inc. (“Vantage Point”), the PTAB invalidated all instituted claims from U.S. Patent 6,615,233 B1 (the ‘233 patent). Vantage Point is a subsidiary of Marathon Patent Group (NASDAQ: MARA) and claimed that its patent covered downloading to a browser a web page…