$2,000 for Caddo Systems Prior Art

On October 30, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 3, including all of the limitations for independent claim 1, of U.S. Patent No. 10,037,127. The patent is owned by Caddo Systems, Inc., and is exclusively licensed to an NPE, 511 Technologies, Inc. The '127 patent is part of a family of patents relating to navigating a hierarchical menu having active links.

The contest will expire on December 15, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Prior Art Provider	Claim Chart Link
Apex Standards	Pseudo Claim Charting
Techson IP	Limestone|Report
Amplified	Invalidity Report
Traindex	Prior Art Report
InQuartik	Semantic Prior Art

$3,000 for KinectUs Prior Art

On October 30, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least Claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,294,428. The patent is owned by KinectUs LLC. The '428 patent generally relates to a system and method for establishing a communication between mobile device users that register with a collaboration system, which determines a match between profile data of the first registered mobile device and profile data of the second registered mobile device. It is currently being asserted against Bumble Trading, LLC.

The contest will expire on December 15, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Prior Art Provider	Claim Chart Link
Apex Standards	Pseudo Claim Charting
Techson IP	Limestone|Report
Amplified	Invalidity Report
Traindex	Prior Art Report
InQuartik	Semantic Prior Art

Webinar Materials - The Rise of Patent Litigation Finance: Data & Trends

Speakers: Alyssa Holtslander – Senior Patent Counsel, Unified Patents

Joshua Harris — Vice President, Burford Capital

Russ Emerson — Partner, Haynes and Boone

Jonathan Stroud — Chief IP Counsel, Unified Patents

While speaking on data and trends within patent litigation financing, we discussed how patent litigation financing works and who is providing the funding. We also discussed privilege and confidentiality issues, ethical issues, the impact of litigation funding to actual litigations, and other hot topic issues regarding patent litigation financing.

Thank you to the panelists for covering a very thought-provoking topic.

To listen to the recorded webinar, click here: https://vimeo.com/473656670

No formal slide presentation was given during the webinar. However, the slides below along with the article, “Pulling Back the Curtain on Complex Funding of Patent Assertion Entities” written by Jonathan Stroud, go hand-in-hand with our discussion today.

Please join us at our next webinar, Reexaminations Reborn: Strategies for Filing Ex Parte Reexaminations on November 19th at 12p EST. For more information, visit our website.

Patent Litigation Finance - Oct2020 by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

Express Mobile reexamination request granted

On October 28, 2020, the Central Reexamination Unit of the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Unified Patents' request for ex parte reexamination, finding substantial questions of patentability for all claims of U.S. Patent 7,594,168, owned and asserted by Express Mobile, Inc., a well-known NPE. The ’168 patent generally relates to website building software. Express Mobile has asserted this patent over 90 times in district court against companies employing both proprietary website-building platforms and open-source platforms like WordPress and Magento. Its numerous complaints have included assertions against companies large and small, including eGrove Systems, Shopify, Web.com Group, Inc., Squarespace, and HubSpot.

View district court litigations by Express Mobile. Read the request below. Unified is represented by Abed Balbaky and Scott McKeown from Ropes & Gray LLP and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jonathan Stroud, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,583, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

Express Mobile Reexam Granted Request by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

Unified Welcomes New CFO to its Executive Team

Unified is pleased to announce Mary Malone has joined as Chief Financial Officer and a senior member of the executive team. Ms. Malone brings a wealth of experience working for several companies in the intellectual property space.

Additional information about Ms. Malone is available below as well as under the Team section of Unified’s website.

Mary Malone, Chief Financial Officer

Ms. Malone is an experienced Finance executive and operationally-oriented business partner. Ms. Malone has extensive experience in business performance management, acquisitions and finance operations. Prior to joining Unified Patents, she was the CFO at a private investment firm and before that, she was the CFO at Landon IP and CFO of CPA Global North America, both providers of services and software to manage intellectual property.