On March 2, 2021, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Office's final decision, in a summary Rule 36 affirmance, confirmed that Barkan Wireless IP Holding's U.S. Patent 8,014,284 was mostly unpatentable. The Court also upheld the Board’s decision that Unified’s members should not have been named as RPIs as unreviewable after the Supreme Court's ruling in Click-to-Call. In every challenge at both the PTAB and the Federal Circuit, Unified has always been confirmed as the sole real party-in-interest in its filings.

Unified was represented by Haynes and Boone in this matter. View Barkan Wireless' district court litigation here. To read the decision and view the entire case proceeding, see our PTAB Portal.