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On September 3, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 10,621,228, owned by MemoryWeb, LLC, an NPE. The '228 patent generally relates to content management systems. It is currently being asserted against Apple and Samsung.
View district court litigations by MemoryWeb, LLC. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Ashraf Fawzy.
On September 1, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on U.S. Patent No. 8,190,610. The patent is owned by R2 Solutions LLC, an Acacia Research Corporation entity. The '610 generally relates to an input data set is treated as a plurality of grouped sets of key/value pairs, which enhances the utility of the MapReduce programming methodology. It is currently being asserted against Walmart, iHeartRadio, Target, Expedia, Roku, Workday, Deezer and others.
The contest will expire on November 30, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On August 30, 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 10,795,457. The patent is owned by D3D Technologies, an NPE. The '457 patent generally relates to an interactive 3D cursor facilitates selection and manipulation of a three-dimensional volume from any three-dimensional image. The ‘457 patent has been asserted against Microsoft.
The contest will expire on November 30, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On August 31, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed the PTAB’s ruling that all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,971,914, are unpatentable in a summary affirmance under Rule 36, effectively ending the longstanding assertion of those claims. The ‘914 patent, directed to controlling a multimedia video device to play video data through the operation of a wireless device, has been asserted against Google and Roku. See Ortiz & Associates Consulting, LLC. v. Unified Patents, LLC, No. 2021-1085 (Fed. Cir. August 31, 2021) (Rule 36 Affirmance). The case was argued by in-house counsel Alyssa Holtslander and Angela Oliver from Haynes and Boone. Unified was also represented by in-house counsel Roshan Mansinghani and Jonathan Stroud as well as Raghav Bajaj, Debbie McComas, David O’Dell, and David McCombs at Haynes and Boone.
To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see our PTAB Portal.
On August 27, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,621,578. The patent is owned by the Defenders of the American Dream, LLC, an NPE. Various demand letters to owners of websites that simply use Captcha as a verification method have been sent and the ‘578 patent has been asserted against Best Buy, Fandango, AEG, and Ticket Master.
The contest will expire on November 15, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
