Webinar Materials - How Times Have Changed: Adaptations in NPE Litigations

Speakers:

Roshan Mansinghani — Legal Head-NPE, Unified Patents

Leslie Pearlson — Senior Litigation Counsel, LogMein

Jonathan Stroud — Chief IP Counsel, Unified Patents

Ilja Bedner — VP of Licensing, LOT Network

For over two decades, a substantial portion of US patent litigation involves non-practicing entities. Changes in the law and practice regarding NPE litigation during this time has led to developing strategies for litigants on both sides. This webinar explores those trends as well as how current practices should evolve in view of the shifts in the law and in the types of entities asserting patents today.

Thank you to our panelists for leading a great discussion!

To listen to the recorded webinar, click here: https://vimeo.com/555836559

Our next webinar, Reading the Tea Leaves: 5G Self-Declaration Trends, is scheduled for Tuesday, June 22nd. Visit our website for topic details and more information.

Unified Files in Amicus for En Banc Review of Apple v. Qualcomm on Appellate Standing

On May 21, 2021, Unified filed an amicus curiae brief in support of en banc review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Apple v. Qualcomm on the issue of the court's increasingly patent-focused, Circuit-specific rules surrounding appellate standing. In the brief, Unified asked the court to review a decision on appeal from a PTAB proceeding where the panel found that the petitioner lacked standing, despite having been sued and paying royalties on the patent in question.

Unified is represented by Bill Jenks of Jenks IP and in-house by Jonathan Stroud. Read the amicus below:

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On May 24, 2021, Unified filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in support of a mandamus petition related to a denial of transfer. The brief argues that the Western District judge's decision not to transfer a case brought by Koss Corp. ignored authority and the court's analysis amounted to an abuse of discretion by erroneously weighing or failing to credit the parties' representations, including party witness convenience.

Unified Patents is represented by in-house counsel Jonathan Stroud, and by Adam G. Unikowsky, Alexander J. Hadjis, Krystalyn Kinsel and Yusuf Esat of Jenner & Block LLP. Read the amicus brief below:

$3,000 for Gridley IP prior art

On May 27, 2021, 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 8,676,668. The patent is owned by by Gridley IP LLC, an IP Edge entity. The '668 patent generally relates to mapping population activity by discerning a location, speed, and direction of wireless mobile devices within a geographic region. It has been asserted against Waitr, Route4Me, WorkWave, Instacart, Doordash, NeighborFavor, Cabconnect, Zum Services, HopSkipDrive, SuperShuttle, and Flywheel Software based on their respective delivery and ridesharing services and apps.

The contest will expire on August 31, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Unified's Portal now includes an integration with PQAI that uses an open-source platform to retrieve prior-art for a given patent. PQAI uses an AI trained on patent citation data to search for prior-art beyond what was found by the examiner during prosecution. When you request prior-art for a patent, PQAI uses its first claim as the search query. The claim is fed into a deep learning ranking system, which matches the query with all prior patents and ranks them from ‘most similar’ to ‘least similar’. A fixed number of patents from the top of the list is shown to you.

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