Causam Enterprises patent challenged

On January 18, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 10,396,592. The ‘592 patent is owned by Causam Enterprises, Inc., an NPE. The ’592 Patent relates to active load management systems and has been asserted in district court and the ITC against Ecobee, Resideo, Alarm.com, Xylem, and Itron.

View district court litigations by Causam Enterprises. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Ashraf Fawzy.

Fintiv challenged in SCOTUS Amicus by Unified

On January 14, 2022, Unified Patents filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the petition for certiorari in Intel Corp. v. VLSI Tech. LLC, challenging the USPTO's reliance on their own NHK-Fintiv ruling, as well as the reviewability of such a de facto rule on appeal.

Unified Patents is represented by Bill Jenks of Jenks IP and by in-house counsel, Jung Hahm and Jonathan Stroud. Read the amicus brief below:

Amicus Brief Jan2022 by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

WSOU '770 patent likely invalid

On January 11, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 7,333,770, owned by WSOU Investments, LLC. The ‘770 patent is generally related to broadcasting data in a telecommunications system and is being asserted against TP-Link Technology Co.

View district court litigations by WSOU Investments. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Drew Sommer at Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Alyssa Holtslander.

Sound View '860 patent successfully challenged

On January 11, 2022, less than 10 months after Unified filed the request for ex parte reexamination, the USPTO issued a final office action rejecting claims 1-3, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 18 of U.S. Patent 8,135,860, owned by Sound View Innovations, LLC. The ‘860 patent relates to data processing that transforms web content into a format suitable for display by a client device and was previously asserted against Facebook.

View district court litigations by Sound View. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Ellyar Barazesh, Ashraf Fawzy, and Jessica L.A. Marks.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014713.

$22,000 for III Holdings prior art

On January 13, 2022, Unified added 11 new PATROLL contests, with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of the list below. The patents are owned by III Holdings, LLC. The contests will all end on April 15, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

We also have third-party prior art providers giving our researchers a head start in the hunt!

• US 7,620,706 - Advanced Reservations in a Compute Environment

• US 7,890,629 - Providing Reservation Masks Within a Compute Environment

• US 8,150,972 - Providing Reservation Masks Within a Compute Environment

• US 8,271,980 - Providing System Jobs Within a Compute Environment

• US 8,806,492 - Workload Manager and Scheduler with an Identity Manager

• US 8,943,207 - Providing Dynamic Roll-back Reservations in Time

• US 9,135,066 - Providing Threshold-based Access to Compute Resources

• US 9,152,455 - Providing System Jobs Within a Compute Environment

• US 9,537,726 - Providing Threshold-based Access to Compute Resources

• US 9,575,805 - Providing System Jobs Within a Compute Environment

• US RE45593 - Providing Object Triggers

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