Intellectual Ventures cloud application management patent challenged

On April 30, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,332,844, owned by Intellectual Ventures II LLC. The ‘844 patent is directed to distributing application environments to a computer nodes using a “root/leaf” system of application environment storage. It has been asserted against Nationwide, Liberty Mutual, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Comerica, JP Morgan, and the Bank of New York Mellon. The patent is also involved in a declaratory judgement action filed by Assurant.

View district court litigations by Intellectual Ventures. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Jason Wejnert.