Webinar Materials - Fintiv Denials in Light of ITC Cases

Speakers:

Michelle Aspen — Senior Patent Counsel, Unified Patents

Sam Korte — Assistant General Counsel, Garmin

Jonathan Strang — Partner, Latham & Watkins

For this webinar, our panel addressed Fintiv denials in light of PTAB proceedings. The panelists presented several case studies and discussed the current policy applied by the PTAB. A few strategies on how to reduce the risk of denial were also included in the presentation.

Many thanks to Michelle, Sam, and Jon for a great discussion!

To listen to the recorded webinar, click here: https://vimeo.com/592877758

The slide presentation from this webinar can be seen below.

Our next webinar is scheduled for Thursday, September 30th. Stay tuned for our topic announcement! Visit our website for more information.

$5,000 Awarded for SaveItSafe prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Erica Ghironi, who received a cash prize of $5,000 for her prior art submission for U.S. Patent 8,929,552. The patent owner is SaveItSafe, LLC, an NPE. The '552 patent relates to securement of electronic information and cryptographic keys. SaveItSafe asserted the '552 patent against Oracle and Ultra Electronics Holdings in the Western District of Texas. However, the prior owner, No Magic, Inc., previously asserted the patent against Futurex, Atos IT Solutions and Services, SafeNet, Townsend Security, and Thales e-Security in 2015 through 2017. Litigation history can be found here.

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

Uniloc abandons own Federal Circuit appeal

On August 16, 2021, Uniloc filed a motion to dismiss its appeal and the Federal Circuit dismissed the appeal a day later. Unified had won on all issues at the PTAB in IPR2019-00453, resulting in all five claims of Uniloc’s U.S. Patent 7,020,252 being found unpatentable. Uniloc raised RPI in the case, but the Board agreed that Unified was not an RPI.

This appeal was handled by Debra McComas, Angela Oliver, Raghav Bajaj, David McCombs, and Jon Bowser from Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

To review the case record, view IPR2019-00453 on Unified’s Portal.

Arigna Technology Limited reexamination request granted

On August 13, 2021, less than four weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,397,318. Formerly owned by Mitsubishi Electric Corp, the ‘318 patent is currently owned by Arigna Technology Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited subsidiary, and has been asserted against several auto makers such as Daimler AG, Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Nissan, and others.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019015.

$2,000 for Longhorn HD prior art

On August 12, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,725,924. The patent is owned by Longhorn HD, LLC, an NPE. The '924 patent generally relates to an information backup system with a storing mechanism, a power supply, and a host microcontroller. It has been asserted against Kyocera, TCT Mobile International, OnePlus Technology, and Samsung.

The contest will expire on November 15, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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