Unified believes that the prior art used in its September 29th IPR shows that Data Speeds

patent, U.S.
Pat. No. 5,867,686 (686 patent), should never have issued. Unifieds IPR challenges claims 1-11 of the
686 patent. A copy of the filing and an informational video can be found below. cUnified has been
monitoring PersonalWebs activity in the cloud storage space for some time as part of our continued
efforts to deter NPEs. Since 2011, PersonalWeb (www.personalweb.com) has filed over a dozen
litigations against cloud storage technologies and services.
United Patents CEO Kevin Jakel told Law360 on Tuesday that he feels the patent shouldnt have been
issued in the first place and that it should be invalidated to protect companies in the cloud storage space
that have had the patent asserted against them
United Patents CEO Kevin Jakel told Law360 on Tuesday that he feels the patent shouldnt have been
issued in the first place and that it should be invalidated to protect companies in the cloud storage space
that have had the patent asserted against them.
Unified has aggressively pitched itself as an anti-NPE operation and clearly sees benefits from equating
NPEs with patent trolls (as it did at times in todays announcement). In large part, Ambwani conceded,
thats because troll is a more recognizable term to those outside the patent community. When pushed to
define a patent troll, he admitted that it was tough before saying, If theyre a threat to a zone and have
invalid patents, thats how wed look at it.
The new content delivery zone protects a range of technologies including content production, distribution,
storage/management, personalization and security on everything from traditional TVs to mobile phones.
Unified has already filed two inter-partes reviews related to this area, one against a patent held by
Broadband iTV and another against Dragon Intellectual Property.
PanTaurus filed 16 cases against companies on April 23, 2014, in the Eastern District of Texas. Unified
believes that the prior art used in its August 29th IPR shows that PanTaurus patent, U.S. Pat. No.
6,272,533 (533 patent), should never have issued. Unifieds IPR challenges claims 29, 31-36, 38, 39, 42,
and 43 of the 533 patent. A copy of the filing can be found below.
On July 30, Unified Patents (Unified) filed an inter-partes review (IPR) against patent owner Broadband
iTV in order to protect content delivery technologies from NPE activity. Broadband iTV claims its
patents cover video-on-demand systems and on April 9, 2014, Broadband iTV asserted U.S. Pat. No.
5,648,824 (824 patent) in Hawaii District Court. Upon review the asserted patent, Unified uncovered
prior art that it believes invalidates the 824 patent. Unifieds IPR challenges the validity of claims 1-4
and 7-11 of Broadband iTVs 824 patent. A copy of the filing can be found below.