Vindolor LLC patent challenged as likely invalid

On December 31, Unified, represented by Akin Gump, filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 6,213,391 asserted by Vindolor, LLC (an NPE). The ‘391 patent, directed to a portable system for electronic personal identification and authentication using a uniquely identifying trait of the user (such as biometric information), has been asserted in 11 district court cases against such companies as Petco, Walt Disney, Restoration Hardware, Verifone, Trader Joe’s, and others.

View Vindolor's district court litigation here.  To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified’s Portal.

MobilePay patent challenged as likely invalid

On December 31, Unified, represented by White & Case, filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,800,706 asserted by MobilePay, LLC (an IP Valuation Partners subsidiary and well-known NPE).  The ‘706 patent, directed to the use of the audio port on a mobile phone to communicate with a peripheral device (such as a keyboard), has been asserted in 5 district court cases against Bank of America, Mindbody, Intuit, and Paypal.

 View MobilePay's district court litigation.  To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified’s Portal.

Pure Data Systems patent challenged as likely invalid

On December 31, Unified, represented by Haynes & Boone, filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 5,999,947 asserted by Pure Data Systems, LLC (a Dominion Harbor subsidiary and well-known NPE).  The ‘947 patent, directed to distributing changes made to a database to one or more client computers, has been asserted in 16 district court cases against such companies as Electronic Arts, Spotify, CNN, CBS, Pinterest, LinkedIn and others.

 View Pure Data Systems's district court litigation.  To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified’s Portal.

Health Watch patent challenged as likely invalid

On December 31, Unified, represented by Wilson Sonsini, filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,460,197 asserted by Health Watch, LLC (a Dominion Harbor subsidiary and well-known NPE).  The ‘197 patent, directed to wearable sensors and electronic devices, has been asserted against Huawei and Samsung. 

 View Health Watch's district court litigation.  To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified’s Portal.

Unified seeks experienced patent attorneys to join its growing legal team

Unified Patents is again growing its legal department, and is seeking experienced, registered, patent attorneys. Applicants must have at least 3 years of law firm or other relevant experience at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and post-grant petition (IPR, PGR, and CBM), reexamination, and other administrative drafting and litigation experience;

Applicants should have a degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) or Computer Science (SC), as well as experience with video codecs, coding, cryptography, compression, signals, wireless communications, or other algorithmic subject matter. For more details about this position and instructions on how to apply, please visit the job posting.