SAN FRANCISCO — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has green-lighted a patent challenge brought by Unified Patents, turning back arguments the consortium is a sham organization designed to shield members from the potentially negative effects of inter partes review.
Non-practicing entity Dragon Intellectual Property had argued that Unified Patents’ member companies pay for and direct its IPRs—just as the PTAB found last year that Apple had done through its membership in RPX Corp. Unified Patents insisted that, while it shares its members’ goal of deterring NPE litigation, it decides independently which patents to target.
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