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Toronto Globe reports on Unified's in-depth portfolio analysis of Blackberry and its delayed sale to NPE

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At the beginning of 2022, BlackBerry announced that Catapult IP Innovations Inc. had agreed to buy several patents in a deal worth over $400-million dollars, but by June, the deal was off. Unified’s Director of Analytics, Sam Baird, analyzed the potential value of the divested portfolio of 37,175 patents, which would be one of the largest patent deals in the past decade. Mr. Baird has noted the buyer’s cost could exceed $900 million USD, including related maintenance costs, prosecution fees and litigation costs.

IPVal entity, Rosen Technologies, patent challenged

On August 29, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,156,318, owned and asserted by Rosen Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Valuation Partners. The ‘318 patent is directed to a programmable thermostat having virtual buttons that control space conditioning equipment. The patent is currently being asserted against Resideo Technologies and Lennox International.

View district court litigations by Rosen Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Jeffrey M. Gross entity, AutoBrilliance, patent successfully challenged in 5G space

On August 19, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,615,137, owned and asserted by AutoBrilliance, LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The ‘137 patent is generally directed to inter-vehicle communication systems and methods for detecting objects and notifying drivers of possible collision conditions and has been asserted against General Motors and Volvo. This was Unified’s first reexamination in the new 3GPP zone.

View AutoBrilliance's district court litigation. Unified was represented by in-house counsel Jessica L.A. Marks and Alyssa Holtslander in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014938.

Unified files amicus brief in OpenSky v. VLSI with Auto Alliance and US Made

On August 18, 2022, Unified filed an amicus brief in IPR2021-010641 — this administration's first Director-initiated review of issues — concerning how the PTAB should address sanctionable conduct in post-grant proceedings. The brief emphasizes the importance to the public interest of PTAB review of patents that more likely than not lack merit, and observes that this paramount goal should be considered, rather than undermined, by any Office response to misconduct. Unified was joined by the Alliance for Automotive Innovation and US-Made.

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Invincible IP '634 prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 8,938,634, owned by IP Edge entity, Invincible IP. The ‘634 patent relates to power savings in a datacenter and was asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, Nutanix, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba.

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