On December 13, 2019, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,590,940, owned and asserted by Lighthouse Consulting Group, an NPE. The ‘940 patent, directed to image-based check depositing technology, has been asserted in district court 33 times since July (29 of which were pending at the time of filing). The defendants in these cases are primarily banks and financial services companies such as Wells Fargo, Citigroup, Charles Schwab, AMEX, Bank of America, Capital One, Morgan Stanley, Ally Financial, JP Morgan, and BB&T.

View Lighthouse's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj at Haynes and Boone in this proceeding.