On May 12, 2016, Unified Patents was instituted on all claims (1-20) and grounds in Unified Patents Inc. v. Nonend Inventions N.V., IPR2016-00174.  In a campaign beginning in September 2014, Nonend had filed patent infringement suits against 29 companies, mostly in the Eastern District of Texas. Many of the cases in Nonend’s litigation campaign were settled after…

On May 11, 2016, Unified Patents Inc. filed a petition for inter partes review, IPR2016-01026, against claims 1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 20, 23, 26, 27, 30,and 31 of U.S. Patent 6,546,439, directed to a method for optimizing memory requests.  The patent is owned by an NPE called Advanced Silicon Technologies (http://adsiltech.com/) A copy of…

IoT Zone Update The proliferation of connected devices has revolutionized society and driven an explosion of new products and services. Unfortunately, this growth has also led to a proliferation of Non Practicing Entity (NPE), or “patent troll” litigation.  Unified Patents (Unified) is pleased to announce that the only solution that challenges and deters NPEs is…

On April 13, 2016, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted IPR2016-00047 on U.S. Patent No. 8,640,183, assigned to Convergent Media Solutions, LLC, an organization tied to Acacia Research Corporation.  The PTAB instituted the IPR on all challenged claims. A copy of the decision can be found below. Unified Patents Inc. v. Convergent Media Solutions, LLC, IPR2016-00047, Paper 11…

On April 13, 2016, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board instituted Unified Patents Inc. into an inter partes review IPR2015-01940 against Qurio Holdings, Inc. on all challenged grounds and all challenged claims 1–15 and 17–21.  The patent, U.S. Patent No. 8,102,863, is directed to connecting a Wide Area Network (WAN) to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). A copy of the institution…