Unified is hiring for full-time Senior Patent Counsel - Apply Today!

Click HERE to apply

Unified Patents is again growing its legal department, and seeks to add an experienced, registered patent attorney. Applicants should have at least 5 years of law firm or other relevant experience before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), in particular working on ex parte reexamination proceedings, post-grant petitions (IPR, PGR, and CBM), or other administrative drafting and litigation experience.

Applicants should have a strong technical background and be willing to explore diverse new technologies; experience with video codecs, coding, cryptography, compression, signals, wireless communications, or other algorithmic subject matter is a plus. Patent examination experience is a plus; a registration number is a plus; clerking experience is a plus; familiarity with ongoing appellate issues affecting PTAB practice is a plus. Must be willing to work within a team, work well independently, and enjoy writing and editing. Journal and filing experience is a plus. Strong preference for candidates located in the Washington, DC area; remote officing is possible. Diversity is prized in our team and among our candidates. Please be prepared to discuss the administrative matters you have been involved in and be ready to provide examples.

Click HERE to review other duties and requirements. Apply TODAY!

$2,000 for Leigh M. Rothschild entity Quantum Technology Innovations networking patent prior art

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 7,650,376, owned by Quantum Technology Innovations LLC, an entity of Leigh M. Rothschild. The ‘376 patent facilitates the distribution of content over a network (e.g., the Internet, a television network) and, in particular, the distribution of high-bandwidth (i.e., data intensive) content, such as video content or customized content. The patent has been asserted against several but most recently Valve Corporation, Showtime Networks, and Pandora Media.

The contest will expire on April 20, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity Secure Ink e-document patent prior art

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 8,140,440, owned by Secure Ink LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The ‘440 patent generally relates to the field of electronic document processing systems. It has been asserted against Box, DocuFirst, DigiSigner, Dropbox, Glykka, M-Files, Stewart Title Guaranty, Yoti, Signicat, and Zoho.

The contest will expire on March 20, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$4,000 for Helios Streaming multimedia patents prior art

Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Helios Streaming, LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to multimedia streaming. The ‘164 patent is currently asserted against Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

The contests will expire on April 20, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

US 8549164 - Media Transmission System (litigation)

US 8656041 - Distributing Multimedia Streaming Service Request

SLS Manager Tech router patent challenge instituted

On February 7, 2024, less than two months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,763,084, owned and asserted by SLS Manager Technologies LLC, an NPE and AiPi Solutions entity. The '084 patent is generally directed to a session router that selects a server to process a location request. It is currently being asserted against Cisco and was previously asserted against Microsoft, Oracle, and Juniper Networks.

View district court litigations by SLS Manager Technologies. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019336