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Unified Patents has added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 6,374,229, owned by BNP Holdings, an NPE. The '229 patent generally relates to web-based accounting and financial software. It is currently being asserted against Intuit.
The contest will expire on June 15, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On March 7, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 8,862,508, owned and asserted by mCom IP, LLC, a Dynamic IP Deals entity. The '508 patent is directed to using e-banking touchpoints to provide personalized financial services and has been asserted 24 times against various banks and financial services companies, including Wells Fargo, US Bank, PNC, IBM, and NCR Corp.
View district court litigations by mCom. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by David Tennant of Allen and Overy and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jung Hahm.
On March 4, 2022, 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 10,353,811. The patent is owned by Wapp Tech Corp., an NPE. The '811 patent generally relates to a system and methods to emulate an application executing in real time on a mobile device. The '811 patent has been asserted against Wells Fargo and Bank of America.
The contest will expire on July 15, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On February 16, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. JustService Net LLC holding all of the independent claims and all known asserted dependent claims of U.S. Patent 10,476,868 unpatentable. The '868 patent is related to cloud and data-storage technology and was asserted against Dropbox.
View district court litigation by JustService.net. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen in this proceeding.
On February 25, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,853,488, owned by Charge Fusion Technologies, LLC. The ‘488 patent generally relates to improvements to electric vehicle charging, e.g., by taking into account user preferences for charging and other attributes (cost of electricity). This patent is currently being asserted against Tesla.
View district court litigations by Charge Fusion Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel David Seastrunk and Michelle Aspen.
