$1,000 Awarded for Slotznick Prior Art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Rajesh Singh, who split the winning cash prize of $1,000 for prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,137,127. The '127 patent is generally related to user-generated embedded information transfer and was granted to Benjamin Slotznick, an NPE-individual.

To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

The patent-at-issue, U.S. Patent No. 7,137,127 ("Slotznick"), which was filed on October9, 2001 and claims an October 10, 2000 priority date, is directed to a method for processing anddisplaying objects embedded with information in the form of function calls prior to displayingthem. U.S. Patent No.

Accelerated Memory Tech Disclaims Patent, Mooting Challenge

On May 21, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) ruled it would not institute Unified Patents, LLC v. Accelerated Memory Tech, LLC, IPR2020-00191 given the claims were no longer valid. While technically a denial, it would be more fair to say the issue was moot, given Patent Owner's earlier disclaimer of all the claims. The patent, U.S. Patent 6,513,062, owned by Accelerated Memory Tech, LLC, an IPinvestments Group affiliate and well-known NPE, was also ruled invalid under 101 in January 2020, prior to the statutory disclaimer. All other cases involving this patent have been terminated.

Unified Patents was represented by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy, and by Raghav Bajaj and David McCombs from Haynes and Boone, LLP. To read the decision and view the case record, see Unified's Portal.

Clean Energy Management patent held unpatentable on all challenged claims

On May 19, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents LLC v. Clean Energy Management Solutions, LLC, holding as unpatentable all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,035,479, owned by well-known NPE Dominion Harbor subsidiary, Clean Energy Management. The ‘479 patent, directed to a mesh network door lock, had been asserted against over 15 companies including Crestron, Cisco Systems, and Lowe's. All cases have been closed.

Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jordan Rossen, and by Larissa Bifano and Michael Van Handel from DLA Piper LLP in this proceeding. To read the decision and to view the entire IPR proceeding, visit our PTAB Portal.

Federal Circuit Summarily Affirms Unified Patents' IPR Against General Access Solutions

On May 15, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed the PTAB’s ruling that all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,225,555, are unpatentable in a summary affirmance under Rule 36, effectively ending the longstanding assertion of those claims. The patent has repeatedly asserted the patent against multiple operating companies in the Eastern District of Texas. See General Access Solutions, Ltd. v. Unified Patents, LLC, No. 2019-1565 (Fed. Cir. May 15, 2020) (Rule 36 Affirmance). Unified was represented by WilmerHale; partner Brittany Amadi argued the appeal via teleconference, in a first for her firm and for Unified. To date, Unified has never lost a Federal Circuit appeal.

A copy of the ruling can be found on our PTAB Portal.

$2000 for Digi Portal prior art, a former Yahoo patent asserted against content companies

On May 18, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art for at least claims 1 and 7 of U.S. Patent 9,626,342. This former Yahoo patent is now owned by Digi Portal, an NPE and subsidiary of Excalibur IP owned by IP Edge. The '342 patent generally relates to a dynamic page generator.

In the past year, this patent has been asserted 11 times against companies such as Redfin, GoodRx, Zomato, Kayak, Truila, and Cars.com.

The contest will expire on June 30, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.