On March 11, Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner Hall Data Sync Technologies LLC  (Hall Data) in order to protect Cloud Storage technologies from invalid NPE assertions. Hall Data claims its patent covers database synchronization using timestamps. Hall Data Sync filed 6 cases against cloud storage companies in January 2015. Unified…

Figure 1: February 2015 had 10% more District Court cases initiated than last year and 9% more than last month. Figure 2: High-Tech had the majority of District Court and PTAB initiated disputes. Figure 3: NPE litigation made up 65% of February 2015 initiated District Court cases, compared to 68% in February 2014 and 58% in January 2015. Figure 4:…

On February 13, Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner Marathon Patent Group’s (NASDAQ: MARA) subsidiary Vantage Point Technology, Inc.  (Vantage Point) in order to protect Cloud Storage technologies from invalid NPE assertions. Vantage Point claims its patent covers downloading to a browser a web page that was selected by the web…

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/january-2015-patent-dispute-report-static/   Figure 1: January 2015 had 36% more District Court cases initiated than last year and 3% more than last month. Figure 2:…

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…