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Unified Patents
Unified Patents is a member-based organization whose goal is reducing the number of NPE assertions in specific technology areas. NPE patent litigation has become a larger and larger percentage of overall litigation. This is because NPEs can achieve a quick return on investment since most companies settle rather than fight, even if they believe the assertion to be invalid. Unified permits small and large companies to be members. Smaller members act as an early warning system by notifying Unified of NPE demand letters in exchange for notifying Unified if they ever plan to sell a Patent to an NPE. Unified defines technology zones which members join, such as cloud storage, content delivery, or electronic payments to ensure Unified’s deterrence is focused.
Unified also directly challenges the validity of NPE patents. By filing several inter partes reviews against patents owned by NPEs, Unified seeks to increase the costs NPEs face when asserting invalid patents and to deter future NPEs from doing the same thing again. Unified also publishes monthly newsletters summarizing NPE activity against small businesses and technology companies.
== History ==
Unified Patents was founded in 2012 by Kevin Jakel and Brian Hinman. Mr.Jakel is the former head of intellectual property litigation at Intuit. Mr.Hinman formerly worked as a vice president of InterDigital. In January of 2013, Unified signed its first member. Since 2012, Unified has grown to 60 or more members including NetApp and Google.
Unified Patents filed its first IPR against Clouding IP's patent 6,738,799. Since then Unified has filed several IPR's against patent trolls. Most recently Unified has targeted PersonalWeb's patent 5,978,791 for inter partes review.
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