Unified Patents Approved for OpenAI Zero Data Retention; Equivalent Zero-Retention Configuration Confirmed for Gemini

Unified Patents, LLC secured approval from OpenAI for Zero Data Retention (ZDR) following an individual review process. ZDR removes OpenAI’s standard API log retention for our approved use cases. In parallel, our Gemini integrations on Google Cloud are configured for an equivalent zero-retention posture, including disabling context caching and avoiding features that store prompts or responses. These additional protections apply to Unified’s Portal tools: Pearl, Precision, and Ask Patty.

To our members, customers, and users in the legal community: we built these controls to reinforce the confidentiality. With these zero retention configurations, provider systems do not retain the prompts or outputs our tools send for approved endpoints and configurations—and neither provider uses our API data to train their models. These measures complement our internal safeguards and procedures designed to protect work product.

What this means for you

• Zero provider-side retention by OpenAI: OpenAI does not retain inputs or outputs.

• Gemini set to zero retention: Our Gemini integrations are configured to avoid provider retention (e.g., disabling context caching) and to exclude stored modes that could keep data.

• No training on our business/API data: Our AI usage is implemented so that model providers do not use our prompts or responses to train their models.

• Aligned with confidentiality: Our approach is designed to minimize provider-side exposure and help maintain the confidentiality of sensitive matters.

New saving capabilities added to Unified's Portal

Unified’s Portal has added a new component to its Patent Search page called MY SEARCHES. This new feature allows users to save their searches and have easy access when different analysis is performed.

Once a user is logged in, a collapsible panel will appear in the side toolbar of the Patent Search page. The panel will show ‘No queries found’ if there are no saved searches. Adjust the filters and perform a search. Click on ‘Save Search’.

The user then can name the search and click on OK. The search will be saved to ‘My Searches’ and can be seen from the drop-down menu. To remove, hover over the name and click on the ‘X’. Portal will double check if the user wants to delete or not.

Click HERE to see Unified’s Portal search capabilities.

Use AI to submit PATROLL Claim Charts for FREE

PATROLL contestants can now use Pearl, Unified Patents’ AI-based tool, to create invalidity claim charts faster and more efficiently than if they were creating them by hand. 

Pearl can use prior art from patents, standards documents, product descriptions, scientific literature, or non-patent literature, and maps these references, including the citations, to each patent limitation in a table format that can be exported into Word, PDF, Excel or CSV format. 

Going forward, PATROLL researchers will be required to submit invalidity charts that address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference.

PATROLL researchers are therefore strongly encouraged to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.

Visit Unified’s website for more information on how to use Pearl. Visit our Help Center on how to become a PATROLL researcher.

World's Most Comprehensive Database for Unified Patent Court (UPC) cases now part of Unified's Portal

As the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has begun to hear cases, Unified's Portal now tracks and allows users to examine the dockets to receive real-time case information. Portal users can filter by Case Numbers, Patent Numbers, Actions, Respondents, Claimants, Representatives, Judges, and Filing Dates. It includes all public documents available and all docket metadata.

Currently Unified’s Portal contains 232 total cases, with 97 cases of Counterclaims for Revocation, 79 cases of Infringement Actions, 25 cases of Revocations, and the remaining 31 cases involving Appeals, Provisional Measures, or other requests. Portal continues to update the cases and case information on a daily basis, proving to be the most comprehensive database of patent litigation around the world.

Case numbers are linked to the UPC, a court composed of judges from all participating Member States of the European Union. Patent numbers are linked to Portal’s patent information page where users can find detailed information about the individual patent.

Click HERE to see how Unified’s Portal is tracking cases from the UPC.

INPADOC Extended Families can now be searched on Unified's Portal

Unified Patents’ Portal now includes INPADOC Extended families. You can now search by and expand by Extended Family ID.

Or have that information displayed or exported in Portal:

These features are available in the Patent Search portal, as well as OPAL’s IEEE, 3GPP, and Video Codec landscapes, to enable accurate top-down counting and analysis. 

DOCDB simple families typically include a collection of patent applications covering the same technical content.

The charts below describe how a set of patents can have 4 separate simple families. The priorities taken into account are:

1. First filings - A first filing is a foreign application claimed under the Paris Convention.

2. Provisional first filings - A provisional first filing is a U.S. provisional application.

3. Equivalents to first filings - An equivalent to a first filing is a U.S. continuation-in-part.

The concept of a “simple” family excludes:

• Applications that are a continuation of an existing parent application

• Applications that are a division of an existing parent application

Continuations and divisions are considered to cover the same technical content as the parent application. Continuations and divisions will always be in a patent family with the parent application, regardless of the priorities that they claim.

Figure 1 - DOCDB SIMPLE FAMILY

Figure 2 - INPADOC EXTENDED FAMILY

(Landscape Study of Potentially Essential Patents Disclosed to ETSI)

An extended patent family is a collection of patent documents covering a technology. The technical content covered by the applications is similar, but not necessarily the same. Members of an extended patent family will have at least one priority in common with at least one other member - either directly or indirectly. Hence, the four families above, become one extended family.

Therefore, the priorities taken into account are:

• First filings, provisional first filings, and equivalents to first filings (for definitions of these terms, see above)

• Priorities that refer to an earlier related application, whether a domestic or a PCT filing

Click HERE to see Unified’s INPADOC extended families search capabilities.