PTAB challenges

Proceedings overview

One AIA trial proceeding has been filed against US Patent 11,693,938. This proceeding, IPR2025-00108, has reached a Final Written Decision, which currently gives a defendant a clearer understanding of the patent's scope.

IPR2025-00108 — Jumio Corporation v. FaceTec, Inc.

• Type: Inter Partes Review
• Filed: 2024-11-07
• Status: Final Written Decision
• Judge panel: Information regarding the specific judge panel for this proceeding is not publicly available in the provided patent text or readily accessible via general search without direct access to the PTAB E2E system.
• Petition grounds: Details of the specific claims challenged, prior art references, and statutory bases (§ 102 / § 103 / § 112) for the petition are not available in the provided patent text or general Google search results. This information is typically found within the institution decision or the petition itself, which requires access to the PTAB E2E system.
• Institution decision: The institution decision details (date and panel's reasoning) are not publicly available in the provided patent text or readily accessible via general search without direct access to the PTAB E2E system.
• Final Written Decision (if issued): The specific verdict at a claim-level granularity for IPR2025-00108 is not publicly available in the provided patent text or readily accessible via general search results. While the status indicates "Final Written Decision" as of 2026-06-17, the outcome regarding which claims were canceled, sustained, or held patentable, along with the panel's reasoning, requires access to the official FWD document from the USPTO PTAB Decisions portal.
• Settlement / termination: There is no public information available regarding a settlement or termination for this proceeding.
• Appeal: There is no public information available regarding an appeal of this FWD to the Federal Circuit.
• Defensive value: Without the specific claim-level outcomes of the Final Written Decision, it is impossible to determine the defensive value. The impact could range from complete invalidation of asserted claims to the patent owner prevailing, thus hardening the patent.

Strategic summary

As of today, June 18, 2026, only one AIA trial proceeding, IPR2025-00108, has been filed against US Patent 11,693,938. This IPR has reached a "Final Written Decision" status, meaning a definitive ruling on the challenged claims has been issued by the PTAB. However, the specific details of this decision—namely, which claims, if any, were canceled or sustained—are not publicly available in the provided patent text or accessible through general web searches. Therefore, it is currently unknown whether the patent has been narrowed, hardened, or otherwise impacted at a claim level.

The estoppel landscape for IPR2025-00108, governed by § 315(e)(2), will bar Jumio Corporation (and its privies) from asserting in future civil actions or other USPTO proceedings any ground that it raised or reasonably could have raised during this IPR. Without knowing the grounds asserted by Jumio, it's difficult to identify which prior-art grounds are still available for other potential challengers. The "Petitioner: Jumio Corporation" and "Patent Owner: FaceTec, Inc." information indicates a dispute between these specific entities. There are no pattern signals suggesting multiple IPRs by the same petitioner or aggressive PTAB appeals by the patent owner, nor is there an indication of a defensive aggregator like Unified Patents being directly involved in this specific proceeding (though Unified Patents has provided data links related to other litigation involving the patent family).

Recommended next steps

To understand the defensive posture regarding US Patent 11,693,938, a defendant should:

• Immediately obtain and review the Final Written Decision for IPR2025-00108. This document will explicitly state which claims, if any, were found unpatentable or patentable. The FWDs are generally public on the USPTO PTAB Decisions portal.
• Analyze the claims that were challenged and the prior art relied upon in IPR2025-00108 to understand the scope of the decision and potential estoppel implications for any existing or future litigation.
• Check the Federal Circuit's docket and CourtListener for any appeals related to IPR2025-00108, as an appeal could alter the final outcome of the PTAB's decision.
• Given the patent's active status and the existence of other litigation (as indicated in the Google Patents sidebar), thoroughly evaluate the remaining claims (if any were found patentable) and their relevance to any accused infringement.

https://patents.google.com/patent/[US11693938](/patent/US11693938)/en