KCG Technologies LLC patent held unpatentable

On February 10, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. KCG Technologies LLC holding all challenged original claims of U.S. Patent 9,671,955 unpatentable. The PTAB also denied their motion to amend, finding proposed substitute claims 14-26 unpatentable as well. The ‘955 patent is generally directed to virtual smart phones used in in-vehicle systems.

KCG had asserted this patent against CarMax. The case is now closed. The ‘955 patent has been held to be directed to patent ineligible subject matter by the Federal Circuit.

View KCG Tech’s district court litigation here. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding. To view the entire case proceeding, see Unified's Portal.

RNIX & SVIX, the first tool set to help objectively save on annuities

With patent annuities sky rocketing into the billions of dollars over the next few years, Unified has developed the world's first tool set to objectively help in deciding what to continue paying annuities on. Unified algorithms calculated 70 million unique patent families based on their Patent Value (PVIX) and an indexed score of their future lifetime cost (SVIX). Combining these two items together makes RNIX, the world's first tool which provides portfolios managers an objective and easy way to quickly ascertain which families are likely to provide the highest value at the lowest cost (and vice versa).

Combined with tools to evaluate patent broadness (BRIX) and validity (APIX), Unified provides the first comprehensive and completely objective set of tools based on academic rigor to help patent portfolio managers effectively evaluate and prioritize.

Read our academic study on SVIX and RNIX below, and for examples of SVIX and RNIX in action on Airbus and Boeing portfolios, please click HERE.

Helios Streaming/Ideahub patent determined to be likely invalid

On February 9, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 8,645,562, owned by Ideahub, Inc., and licensed to and asserted by Helios Streaming, LLC, an NPE. The '562 patent is directed to an adaptive streaming service using metadata and is being asserted against Showtime, Vudu, Crackle, and Starz. Helios is asserting the ‘562 patent against streaming media content in accordance with the MPEG-DASH standard and video-on-demand (VOD) systems. 

View district court litigation by Ideahub and Helios. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by WilmerHale and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jung Hahm, in this proceeding.

Arsus IPR terminated by Board

On January 27, 2021, the Board terminated IPR2020-00948, Unified Patents, LLC v. Arsus, LLC, in response to Arsus disclaiming all challenged claims. Arsus's counsel filed a Motion to Vacate Judgment arguing that the Board was deprived of subject matter jurisdiction after Arsus's disclaimer. The Board issued an order denying Arsus's motion to vacate and affirming termination of the proceeding.

Read the order below. View district court litigation by Arsus, LLC. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Unified’s in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

IPR2020-00948 - Arsus Motion to Vacate Judgment (Paper 19) by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

IPR2020-00948 - Order Denying Motion to Vacate Judgment (Paper 20) by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

IP Edge Affiliate Karamelion's Patent Challenged

On February 5, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 6,275,166, owned by Karamelion LLC, an NPE and affiliate of IP Edge. This patent relates to relaying communications to appliances from a central computer and has been asserted in over 40 district court litigations.

View district court litigations by Karamelion. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/019,009, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

Reexam Request KAR166 RXOSUB by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd