Unified has published its own study of institution success rates for top law firms at the PTAB. While prior studies have focused on case-level statistics by law firm, this report adds further insight by providing claim-level statistics and distinguishing between decisions on the merits from decisions on procedural grounds. Institution Decisions on the Merits (as…
Unified Invalidates Claims in IPR against Marathon-Owned Vantage Point Technology
On August 4, 2015, in an inter parts review (“IPR”) filed by Unified Patents (“Unified”) against Vantage Point Technology, Inc. (“Vantage Point”), the PTAB invalidated all instituted claims from U.S. Patent 6,615,233 B1 (the ‘233 patent). Vantage Point is a subsidiary of Marathon Patent Group (NASDAQ: MARA) and claimed that its patent covered downloading to a browser a web page…
Unified Files to Invalidate Elia Data's Patent
On July 22, 2015 Unified Patents (“Unified”) filed an Inter Parts Review (IPR) against patent owner Elia Data of Texas, LL C (“Elia Data”) in order to protect Cloud Storage technologies from invalid NPE assertions. Elia Data claims its patent covers the secured transport and storage of data on a network. Elia Data has filed 4 cases against Cloud Storage companies…
Unified Files to Invalidate Novocrypt’s Patent
On July 22, 2015 Unified Patents (“Unified”) filed an Inter Partes Review (IPR) against patent owner Novocrypt LLC (“Novocrypt”) in order to protect Cloud Storage technologies from invalid NPE assertions. Novocrypt claims its patent covers portable storage devices with network function. Novocrypt has filed 8 cases against Cloud Storage companies in February 2015. Unified independently filed its I PR…
Unified’s IPR against Marathon owned Vantage Point Technology Instituted Against 18 Claims
On July 17, 2015, the PTAB instituted Unified Patents’ Inter-Parts Review (IPR) against Marathon ($MARA) subsidiary Vantage Point Technology, Inc. (Vantage Point’s) Patent No. 6,615,233 (‘233 patent) on claims 1–3, 6– 13, 15–17, 27, 31, 49, and 59. Vantage Point claims its patent covers downloading to a browser a web page that was selected by the web server and automatically…