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40 cases as plaintiff.
Unified Patents, LLC is a private patent risk mitigation firm founded in 2012. The company maintains offices in Washington, D.C. and San Jose, California. In December 2019, it was acquired by WestView Capital Partners, a private equity firm. While headcount estimates vary, sources suggest it employs between 35 and 100 people. One source estimates its annual revenue at approximately $3.8 million.
Unified Patents is a membership-based organization that seeks to deter patent assertions from non-practicing entities (NPEs), also known as "patent trolls." The company’s services include monitoring NPE litigation activity, providing patent analytics, and proactively challenging the validity of patents held by NPEs. It files challenges, such as inter partes reviews (IPRs) and ex parte reexaminations, before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Unified operates in specific technology sectors it calls "Zones" and crowdsources prior art to invalidate patents through its PATROLL program. The company states that, as a matter of policy, it does not pay NPEs to purchase or license patents.
The company's patent-litigation posture is directly aligned with its business model. The provided data shows Unified Patents primarily as a plaintiff (petitioner) in two cases and as a defendant in one, with all tracked cases occurring at the USPTO's PTAB. This reflects its strategy of proactively challenging patent validity rather than litigating infringement in district courts. Notable cases listed in the database include challenges against patents held by Centripetal Networks, a cybersecurity firm involved in extensive patent litigation, and Seasonal Specialties. The defensive case, Fractus, S.A. v. Unified Patents, LLC, involves an entity that Unified has publicly identified as an NPE and against which it has filed multiple patent challenges.
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Ex parte reexamination of US Patent 10,212,422 filed by Unified Patents, LLC at the USPTO; Ideahub Inc. is the patent owner. No outcome was identified in the retrieved sources, and the reported filing date is flagged as inconsistent with the session's current date.
An Inter Partes Review proceeding initiated by Unified Patents, LLC against AutoConnect Holdings LLC concerning US Patent 9082239, which was not instituted for procedural reasons and is now closed.
An Inter Partes Review (IPR) petition filed by Unified Patents, LLC against Sonos, Inc. challenging US Patent 10031715. The PTAB issued a decision not to institute the IPR for procedural reasons.
Unified Patents, LLC filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent No. 10,334,068 against Razdog Holdings LLC, the patent owner. The PTAB has instituted review.
Unified Patents, LLC initiated an Inter Partes Review (IPR) against Palisade Technologies LLP concerning patent 9281314, which was subsequently not instituted.
An inter partes review (IPR) was filed by Unified Patents against Breckenridge Pharmaceutical Inc., the current assignee of US patent 11013729. The IPR was not instituted due to procedural reasons.
This is an Inter Partes Review (IPR) filed by Unified Patents, LLC challenging a patent held by Nokia Technologies Oy, which resulted in a settlement.
Unified Patents, LLC filed a petition for inter partes review against Intellectual Ventures II LLC concerning patent 7916180, which was subsequently instituted by the PTAB.
Unified Patents, LLC filed an Inter Partes Review (IPR) challenging US patent 11894098 against Dynapass Holdings IP LLC at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, which has reached a Final Written Decision.
Unified Patents filed an inter partes review challenging claims of US Patent 6,965,920. The PTAB instituted review on May 15, 2023, and issued a Final Written Decision on May 10, 2024, holding claims 1 and 14-17 unpatentable as obvious. The decision was appealed to the Federal Circuit.
This inter partes review was filed by Unified Patents, LLC against Veroscan Inc. before the PTAB and was terminated with a Final Written Decision on November 6, 2023.
Post-grant review filed by Unified Patents challenging all claims 1-13 of US 11,122,274 B2. The PTAB instituted review and issued a Final Written Decision finding all challenged claims unpatentable for lack of written description under 35 U.S.C. § 112(a), applying collateral estoppel from IPR2020-00702.
In a Final Written Decision, the PTAB found claims 1–3, 5–13, and 15–20 to be unpatentable, but determined that the petitioner had not demonstrated that claims 4 and 14 were unpatentable.
Unified Patents petitioned for inter partes review of claims 27 and 28 of the '257 patent. The PTAB granted institution, then determined Unified Patents failed to prove the challenged claims unpatentable and dismissed the patent owner's contingent motion to amend.
Unified Patents, LLC filed a post-grant review petition against MemoryWeb LLC. The PTAB issued a Final Written Decision finding claims 1-20 of the patent unpatentable.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision finding that Unified Patents failed to show any of the challenged claims (claims 1, 7, and 8) of US10237577 were unpatentable. The Board also declined to adjudicate Dolby's arguments regarding other real parties in interest.
Unified Patents filed an inter partes review petition challenging U.S. Patent 7,739,302. The Board instituted trial on September 1, 2020, and issued a termination decision on March 18, 2021.
Unified Patents, LLC filed an inter partes review against FireNet Technologies, LLC challenging claims 1-17 and 19-23 of US 8,892,600 on obviousness grounds. A Final Written Decision issued and the challenged claim was cancelled.
Inter partes review filed by Unified Patents, LLC against GE Video Compression, LLC challenging US 9,729,891 B2. The PTAB instituted trial on all challenged claims on August 1, 2019 and terminated the proceeding on June 25, 2020 with a Final Written Decision.
Unified Patents, LLC, as petitioner, initiated an Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceeding against the patent, owned by Seasonal Specialties, LLC. The PTAB has issued a Final Written Decision in the case.
In an Inter Partes Review proceeding, the PTAB initially invalidated several claims of the '091 patent. The Federal Circuit later overturned that ruling, finding the Board had used an incorrect claim construction.
This PTAB case was filed by Unified Patents, but the review was not initiated on its merits for procedural reasons.
An Inter Partes Review (IPR) was initiated by Unified Patents, LLC to challenge the validity of U.S. Patent 7,547,584. The PTAB has instituted the trial, finding a reasonable likelihood that the petitioner will prevail in its challenge against at least one of the patent's claims.
The parties reached a settlement, which terminated the IPR proceeding before a final written decision on the merits of the patent's validity was issued.
An inter partes review (IPR) was instituted by the PTAB to review the patentability of at least some claims of US Patent 11856414.
An Inter Partes Review (IPR) initiated by Unified Patents, LLC challenging US patent 11740801, owned by Radian Memory Systems LLC, which has since reached a settlement.
Unified Patents, LLC filed a petition for inter partes review against Telcom Ventures LLC, which resulted in a procedural termination.
An Inter Partes Review (IPR) filed by Unified Patents, LLC challenging US patent 6950469 owned by Nokia Technologies Oy, which concluded in a settlement.
An inter partes review (IPR) challenging US Patent 11626066 was initiated by Unified Patents, LLC against AuthWallet LLC at the PTAB, concluding in a settlement.
An Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceeding initiated by Unified Patents, LLC against Samsung Display Co Ltd concerning US patent 10013088, which concluded in a settlement.
An Inter Partes Review (IPR) was filed by Unified Patents, LLC against patent owner AUTHWALLET LLC regarding US patent 7676194, but it was not instituted.
An IPR filed by Unified Patents, LLC against Malikie Innovations Ltd regarding US patent 9542571, which was subsequently settled.
Unified Patents, LLC filed an Inter Partes Review petition challenging patent 11107768 owned by MYW Semitech, LLC, which has been instituted by the PTAB.
This is a PTAB case challenging patent 10426633, initiated by Unified Patents, LLC.
Unified Patents, LLC has filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against patent 12240458 before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Unified Patents, LLC filed an Inter Partes Review against Intellectual Ventures II LLC challenging the patentability of US Patent 9706500.
Unified Patents, LLC filed for ex parte reexamination of US Patent 8855723. On December 1, 2023, the USPTO's Central Reexamination Unit granted the request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on all challenged claims.
This is an Inter Partes Review (IPR) case challenging US patent 10798509, initiated by Unified Patents, LLC as the petitioner against Eight Khz LLC as the patent owner. The case has reached a Final Written Decision.
A Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) case where Unified Patents, LLC challenged US patent 9471287, resulting in a Final Written Decision.
Unified Patents, LLC filed an Inter Partes Review petition challenging US patent 10894503, with an 'Individual' (likely Yechezkal Evan Spero) listed as the patent owner.