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On September 22, 2025, Unified filed an amicus brief challenging in support of a separation of powers mandamus question presented by SanDisk and Western Digital to the Federal Circuit. This brief raises questions of the statutory authority of discretionary denials.
Unified Patents is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jonathan Stroud. Download the amicus brief below.
On June 27, 2025, Unified filed an amicus in support of Motorola's mandamus petition challenging the Office's retroactive application of new rules related to discretionary denial. The brief urged the court to review the Office's use of ad hoc decisions to set its discretionary denial framework in lieu of formal rulemaking and its inconsistent application of its rules to similar facts.
Unified Patents is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jonathan Stroud. Download the amicus brief below.
On February 10, 2025, Unified filed an amicus brief supporting Dish Network's petition requesting that the Court confirm the broad scope of Section 285. Specifically, the amicus brief discusses why third parties, including counsel, may be liable for fees under Section 285 and similar fee-shifting statutes. The brief also discusses the need for clarification regarding the standard for when fee shifting statutes apply to related administrative proceedings, explaining why inter partes review fees may be included in the scope of Section 285.
Unified Patents is represented by in-house counsel, Jonathan Stroud and Michelle Aspen. Unified was also represented by William G. Jenks of Jenks IP Law in seeking en banc review of these issues from the Federal Circuit. Download the amicus brief below.
On November 26, 2024, Unified filed an amicus brief with the en banc Federal Circuit in EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google LLC, No. 23-1101. The full Court will be reviewing the proper standard under Rule 702 for admissibility of expert testimony regarding reasonable royalties in patent cases. Specifically, the Court will be considering a decision involving the admissibility of expert testimony that relied primarily on an inoperative clause stating the patent owner's "belief" to extract a single-patent royalty from lump-sum settlement agreements covering many patents. Unified wrote to advise the court on the prejudicial harms of admitting outsized damages theories before a jury.
Unified Patents is represented by William G. Jenks of Jenks IP Law, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jonathan Stroud. Download the amicus brief below.
On August 19, 2024, Unified filed an amicus brief in support of an en banc review of a decision that insulates the attorneys and funders who control shell companies that file objectively baseless cases from § 285 fees. The brief also recommends review of the panel's holding that precludes district court judges from rewarding fees related to inter partes review proceedings in exceptional cases, even when those proceedings resolve a related district court case.
Unified Patents is represented by William G. Jenks of Jenks IP Law, and by in-house counsel, Jonathan Stroud and Michelle Aspen. Download the amicus brief below.
