Data compiled by NGB, a Japanese IP Services company, and utilizing data from Unified Patents and Lex Machina, show that Asian companies are increasing their usage of PTAB. Some important findings include: – Most filings are NPE related. – Almost all filings are related to co-pending litigation in District Court – Asian PTAB filers by…

Figure 1: Only 12% of the almost 13,000 litigated patents (in district court) have been challenged before the PTAB since 2012.   Figure 2: The PTAB has ruled valid 62% of challenged claims based on termination in a Denial of Institution (approximately 6 months after filing) or in a Final Written Decision (approximately 18 months…

Figure 1:  440 PTAB petitions were filed in Q1 2015, nearly double the petitions filed in Q1 2014. Figure 2:  Q1 2015 had 13% more District Court cases initiated than last year and 29% more than last quarter. Figure 3: High-Tech had the majority of District Court and PTAB initiated disputes. Figure 4: In Q1 2015, PTAB petitions…

On March 19, 2015, in an inter partes review (“IPR”) filed by Unified Patents against Clouding IP, LLC (“Clouding IP”), the PTAB invalidated all challenged claims from U.S. Patent 6,738,799 B2 (the ‘799 patent). Clouding IP claims its patent covers generating update files from an earlier file version, and asserted the ‘799 patent  against 6 companies in 2012, 4 companies…

On April 15, Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner C-Cation Technologies, LLC (C-Cation) in order to protect Content Delivery technologies from invalid NPE assertions. C-Cation claims its patent covers the ability to distribute data and content to end users from a central controller.  Recently, C-Cation filed two cases in February…