Defendant
1 case as defendant.
SIMPLYTAPP Inc. is a private technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas, founded in 2011. The company has raised over $10 million in funding from investors including Verizon Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. As of December 2013, it was a small startup with six full-time employees, focusing on mobile payment solutions.
SIMPLYTAPP specializes in mobile proximity payments technology, enabling card issuers and developers to utilize mobile devices for various real-world transactions. Its core offering is Host Card Emulation (HCE) technology, which facilitates Near-Field Communication (NFC) payments on mobile devices by referencing a remote server for card credentials, thereby bypassing the need for a secure element. The company's technology was central to Google's NFC workaround in an Android mobile operating system update and supported NFC payments for CyanogenMod. In 2016, SIMPLYTAPP launched Gane, a mobile payments application that provided instant access to funds, Tap and Pay functionality, and automated discount offers.
SIMPLYTAPP Inc. appears in patent litigation solely as a defendant in a single tracked case, Unified Patents v. SIMPLYTAPP Inc. et al., before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in 2023. This posture, particularly being challenged by Unified Patents – an organization dedicated to deterring non-practicing entity (NPE) patent assertions and challenging their patents – strongly indicates that SIMPLYTAPP Inc. operates as a patent assertion entity whose patents are being challenged.
The notable case, Unified Patents v. SIMPLYTAPP Inc. et al., signifies a challenge to the validity of SIMPLYTAPP's patents, consistent with Unified Patents' mission to reduce what they consider frivolous patent litigation.
Unified Patents filed an Inter Partes Review petition against US patent 10032171, owned by SIMPLYTAPP Inc. and OV Loop Inc., which resulted in a Final Written Decision by the PTAB.