American Patents, LLC patent challenged as likely invalid

On December 27, 2018, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,373,655 owned and asserted by American Patents, LLC, an NPE.  The ’655 patent, directed to a method for control of access to network resources, has been asserted in multiple district court cases against such companies as TCL, LG, Samsung, Sharp, Acer, Huawei and others. 

View American Patent’s district court litigation here.  To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see our PTAB Portal. 

SpeakWare patent challenged as likely invalid

On December 27, 2018, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 6,397,186 owned and operated by SpeakWare, Inc., an NPE.  The ’186 patent, directed to a voice-operated remote control transmitter that activates and operates remote appliances, has been asserted against Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung Electronics. 

View SpeakWare’s district court litigation here.  To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see our PTAB Portal. 

Uniloc patent challenged as likely invalid

On December 27, 2018, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,606,856 owned and asserted by Uniloc 2017 LLC, a Uniloc affiliate and well-known NPE.  The ’856 patent, directed to tracking the distribution of digital media assets with identification data, has been asserted in district court litigation against Amazon and Microsoft. 

View Uniloc’s district court litigation here.  To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see our PTAB Portal. 

Bradium Technologies patent determined to be likely invalid

On December 20, 2018, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 9,253,239 owned by Bradium Technologies, LLC, a General Patent Corp. subsidiary and NPE. As in its recent institutions against Realtime Adaptive Streaming and Mobility Workx, the Board once again rejected arguments that Unified’s members are real parties-in-interest in view of the Federal Circuit’s ruling in Applications in Internet Time, LLC v. RPX. The '239 patent, directed to a "Optimized image delivery over limited bandwidth communication channels," is not actively involved in district court litigation.

View all of Bradium Technologies’ District Court litigation here. To read the decision and to view the entire IPR proceeding, visit our PTAB Portal. 

Medical imaging patent added to PATROLL

On December 20, 2018, Unified added a $1,000 contest to PATROLL seeking prior art for US Patent No. 8553831 owned by Feng Ma. The '831 patent, generally relates to a computed tomography imaging system used for medical diagnoses.

The contest will expire on March 20, 2019. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.