In an opinion piece written for the IAM website, Jonathan Stoud highlights what the State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR) letter to Avanci means to standards leadership. The letter puts Avanci on notice for potentially acting anticompetitively, asking it to address monopoly risks related to its licensing practices.
Judgment Day - coverage of the judgment preservation insurance market bubble
In an article published by Carrier Management, Jonathan Stroud, General Counsel for Unified Patents, is quoted over the increase in sales of judgment preservation insurance (JPI). JPI is a type of insurance that covers the possibility that an award granted at the trial court level could be reversed or reduced on appeal. The policy guarantees the policyholder would receive an agreed-upon financial amount should the verdict go in an unfavorable direction.
“The brokers really started a push toward sales. Their timing was good, as eye-popping verdicts were happening. People started to think maybe this is something, maybe we’re getting left out by not buying the insurance. The brokers capitalized on these fears.”
Jonathan Stroud, Unified Patents
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$2,000 awarded for Rothschild entity Electronic Edison Transmission power patent prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Dinesh Swami, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,871,415, owned by Electronic Edison Transmission Technologies, LLC, an entity of Leigh M. Rothschild. The ‘415 patent relates to systems, methods, and devices for transferring power to a mobile device. It has been asserted against Samsung.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.
WINNING SUBMISSIONS
$2,000 awarded for NTECH multimedia patent prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Ritu Tyagi, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,215,261, owned by NTECH Properties, LLC, an NPE. The ‘261 patent generally relates to media delivery and programming and was asserted against ByteDance, Ltd.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.
WINNING SUBMISSIONS
Comments to the USPTO submitted regarding terminal disclaimer practice
Through policy advocacy work with Unified Edge, Unified Patents has submitted comments to the USPTO's recent NPRM regarding conditions for obtaining terminal disclaimers to obviate obviousness-type double patenting.
In 2022, the USPTO requested comments regarding USPTO Initiatives to Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights. The Office has proposed a rule that would cut down on examiner wear-down and the abusive assertions of obvious variations of continuation patents through current terminal disclaimer practice. Unified has written to support the proposed rule.
Read through Unified’s comments by clicking on the button below: