On January 11, 2016, Unified Patents Inc. petitioned for inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent 7,173,651, owned and asserted by FO2GO LLC.  FO2GO has filed fifteen cases in the District of Delaware, asserting one patent with five claims.  FO2GO claims its patents cover digital photo cloud storage applications, among other things. Unified independently petitioned for…

Unified tracks all U.S. patent disputes, categorizing each by entity type and technology sector, and provides statistics, analytics, and regular reports on the state of patent disputes.  Unified is also the only independent entity that has challenged patent aggregators—entities that repeatedly purchase and seek to monetize patents. In that vein, we are happy to announce…

On Tuesday, December 22, 2015, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted another petition filed by Unified Patents Inc. against a patent owned by Novocrypt LLC (Novocrypt) on two grounds and on all 13 claims. Unified filed the petition to protect cloud storage technologies from questionable NPE assertions. Novocrypt claims its patent covers, among…

On December 17, 2015, Unified Patents (“Unified”) petitioned for inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent 9,043,093, owned and asserted by American Vehicular Sciences, LLC (“AVS”), an Acacia Research Corporation (@Acacia_Research $ACTG) subsidiary. On September 1, 2015, AVS filed cases in the Central District of California, asserting one patent. In those cases AVS is represented by Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing…

Table 1a: NPEs filed over 600 new cases in the eRetail zone in 2015. NPE litigation in the eRetail zone has increased dramatically over the last several years. From January 1, 2012 to September 30, 2015, Unified studied patent infringement actions against the largest in-store and online retailers with particular emphasis on those cases filed by known or suspected NPEs. The study demonstrated that…