On February 12, the PTAB instituted Unified’s Inter-Partes Review (IPR) against Dragon Intellectual Property, LLC (Dragon)’s Patent #5,930,444 (‘444 patent) on all challenged claims. Dragon claims its patent covers streaming media recording and playback and filed cases against 10 companies on December 20, 2013.  Unified’s IPR challenges claims 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 13 and 14…

NOTE:    IT CAN SOMETIMES TAKE UP TO 30 SECONDS FOR THE POST TO SHOW THE GRAPHS.  IF YOU CONTINUE TO HAVE PROBLEMS WE HAVE CREATED A STATIC VERSION OF THE REPORT HERE. http://unifiedpatents.com/2014-patent-dispute-report-and-analytics/ Figure 1:  In 2014, patent disputes reached the second highest level in history, 6,674. Figure 2:  In 2014, PTAB filings increased, as litigation…

NOTE:   IT CAN SOMETIMES TAKE UP TO 30 SECONDS FOR THE POST TO SHOW THE GRAPHS.  IF YOU CONTINUE TO HAVE PROBLEMS WE HAVE CREATED A STATIC VERSION OF THE REPORT HERE. http://unifiedpatents.com/2014-ptab-report/ Figure 1: 1675 PTAB petitions were filed in 2014, more than double the petitions filed in 2013. Figure 2:  Over half…

NOTE:    IT CAN SOMETIMES TAKE UP TO 30 SECONDS FOR THE POST TO SHOW THE GRAPHS.  IF YOU CONTINUE TO HAVE PROBLEMS WE HAVE CREATED A STATIC VERSION OF THE REPORT HERE.  http://unifiedpatents.com/2014patentlitigationreport/ Figure 1:  The number of 2014 patent litigation filings approached 5000, the third highest count ever.  Patent suits have risen dramatically…

On December 31st, Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner Personalized Media Communications (PMC) in order to protect Content Delivery technologies from invalid NPE assertions.  PMC claims its patents cover the encryption and decryption of digital content.  Most recently, PMC sued Amazon in September, 2013. On September 22, Amazon filed an…