MobilePay final decision affirmed by Federal Circuit

On March 11, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed the PTAB’s ruling that all challenged claims of MobilePay’s U.S. Patent 9,800,706 are unpatentable. MobilePay is an IP Valuation Partners subsidiary.

The '706 patent is directed to systems that connect a credit card reader to a mobile phone via the audio port so the mobile phone can be used to transmit credit card data to a cloud service for decoding. The patent has been asserted against PayPal, Bank of America, Mindbody, and Intuit.

View MobilePay's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Jason Mudd and Eric Buresh of Erise IP and by in-house counsel, Jessica Marks and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

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$2,000 for BNP Holdings prior art

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.

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Dynamic IP Deals entity, mCom IP, patent likely invalid

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.

$2,000 for Wapp Tech Corp prior art

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.

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JustService patent held invalid

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.