Google Patents now includes Unified PTAB and District Court litigation data

This collaboration incorporates all PTAB and district court litigation (supplied by Maxval) from Unified’s Portal and its new BigQuery deployment into the events area of Google’s patent search for any patent which has been in dispute. Unified is only entity providing completely free, public accessibility to this information. For example, a Dominion Harbor Patent US6014089 was recently found mostly invalid and the PTAB information can be seen in the events section. In addition, Unified’s Portal contains detailed information regarding all PTAB and district court filings as well as a suite of analytics tools to assess the best patent law firms, NPE activity, examiner reports, and much more. Anyone can view the information through Google Patents and our Portal.

Interested in using this data for your research? Reach out to us at info@unifiedpatents.com for more information.

Multiple claims for First-Class Monitoring (Dominion Harbor) patent held unpatentable by PTAB

On March 13, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents Inc. v. First Class Monitoring, LLC IPR2017-01932 invalidating claims 1-5, 7, 9, 10 and 16-22 of U.S. Patent 6,014,089 owned and asserted by First Class Monitoring, LLC, a Dominion Harbor subsidiary and a well-known NPE. The '089 patent, directed to transmitting data via conventional SMS messages over a control channel of a personal communications system transmission protocol, has been asserted against various financial services companies such as Citigroup, Bank of America, USAA, JP Morgan, and PNC.

Lionel Lavenue and Brandon Rash at Finnegan served as Unified’s lead counsel in this proceeding. View all of First-Class Monitoring’s District Court litigation here. To read the decision, visit Unified’s PTAB Portal.

Unified files IPR against US 10,110,898 owned by Velos Media, LLC

On March 6, 2019, Unified filed a petition (with Winston & Strawn serving as lead counsel) for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent No. 10,110,898, owned by Velos Media, LLC (Velos), as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

The '898 patent and its corresponding extended patent family is one of the largest families known to be owned by Velos. Including this petition, Unified has now challenged patents representing 27.2% of Velos’ total known U.S. assets.

Velos claims to have and seeks to license patents allegedly essential to the HEVC / H.265 standard. The family of the '898 patent, originally assigned to Sony Corporation, was transferred to Velos Media in 2018.  After conducting an independent analysis, Unified has determined that the '898 patent is likely unpatentable.

Visit Unified’s Public Portal for more information about its Video Codec landscape (OPAL) and standard submission repository (OPEN). To read the petition and review the case record, view IPR2019-00763 on the Portal.

Free patent litigation alerts now available via Unified's Portal!

Unified is pleased to announce the latest addition to its free patent litigation Portal, “The UP Daily” litigation email alert. The UP Daily is a daily email containing all new cases, recent institutions, and final decisions from the PTAB as well as new and recently terminated district court cases. Details for any cases can be easily found in Unified’s Portal. Follow the link below to subscribe to receive these free daily litigation alerts.

In case you miss an update, an index of past UP Daily announcements is available here.

Measuring law firm success at PTAB

A new video tutorial explaining how to use the Institutional Success Index (ISIX) ratings is now available via Unified’s free patent analytics Portal.

The Institutional Success Index, or “ISIX,” rating was developed by Unified to measure law firms’ success in inter partes reviews. The index permits anyone to easily measure how successful a law firm has historically been at being instituted and successfully invalidating at least 1 claim of a challenged patent. The tutorial demonstrates how users can access the ISIX score for any law firm using the Portal.

In this tutorial, we show you how to use Unified's free online Portal to identify the best law firms for post-grant proceedings.

For more information about ISIX ratings, visit Unified’s Portal FAQ.