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I'm genuinely excited today to announce the release of my new book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. As of this morning, it is available in bookstores as well as for shipping online. The book focuses on what I began realizing several years ago is the crucial theme tying together most of the topics I write about: America's two-tiered justice system - specifically, the way political and financial elites are now vested with virtually absolute immunity from the rule of law even when they are caught committing egregious crimes, while ordinary Americans are subjected to the world's largest and one of its harshest and most merciless penal states even for trivial offenses. As a result, law has been completely perverted from what it was intended to be - the guarantor of an equal playing field which would legitimize outcome inequalities - into its precise antithesis: a weapon used by the most powerful to protect their ill-gotten gains, strengthen their unearned prerogatives, and ensure ever-expanding opportunity inequality. This is how I described that development in the book:

As intense protests spawned by Occupy Wall Street continue to grow, it is worth asking: Why now? The answer is not obvious. After all, severe income and wealth inequality have long plagued the United States. In fact, it could reasonably be claimed that this form of inequality is part of the design of the American founding -- indeed, an integral part of it.

On June 22, 2016, pursuant to a settlement agreement, Unified Patents Inc. filed a motion to terminate their petition for inter partes review, IPR2016-00836, against claims 1-3, 5-7, 9-16 and 19 of U.S. Patent 8,285,648 (owned and recently asserted by Verify Smart Corp.). A copy of that public filing can be found here.

On September 7, 2016, Unified Patents Inc. filed a petition for inter partes review against all claims of a patent owned and asserted by Digital Stream IP, LLC in the Eastern District of Texas. The challenged patent, 6,757,913, discusses the wireless transmission of digital data. A copy of the proceeding can be found below.

On September 8, 2016, Unified Patents Inc. filed its 55th petition for inter partes review, challenging all claims of U.S. Patent 6,442,261 as unpatentable over multiple grounds. The patent, related to identifying dropped telephone calls, had been asserted against automotive companies. A copy of the petition can be found below.

To protect an invention, it is important for an inventor to be familiar with different available rights. This blog is an introduction to patent and you will also learn about other rights such as trademark and trade secret.

Overview: Although overall patent disputes in the district courts have decreased, PTAB filings continue to be stable and NPEs continue to account for more than half of new cases. For PTAB analytics and case information please go to portal.unifiedpatents.com Fig. 1: So far in 2016, 4,532* new patent infringement disputes were filed in district courts or at PTAB.

On August 31, 2016, Unified Patents Inc. filed against a patent owned by Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC. The patent, U.S. 6,466,983, has not been asserted in any district court to date. A copy of the petition can be found below. Unified Patents Inc. v. Plano Encryption Technologies, LLC, IPR2016-01644, Paper 1 (Aug.

On July 25, 2016, Unified Patents Inc. filed a petition for inter partes review of all claims 1-15 of U.S. Patent 6,415,207. In IPR2016-01465, Unified challenged a patent directed to automated tracking, one that Shipping and Transit has asserted against more than 90 small businesses. A copy of the filing can be found below.

Overview Overall, 1st Half 2016 litigation (2187 cases) was down from similar time frames in the last several years (Figure 1). Q2 2016 litigation was 31% higher than Q1 2016 (Figure 4). Almost 90% of High-Tech litigation continues to be NPE related (Figure 8).

Through almost four years and nearly fifty patentability challenges, Unified Patents (UPI) has never lost a real party-in-interest (RPI) decision before the PTAB. Here are some of those decisions. Unified's members were not found to be RPIs, where there was no evidence of funding or control of a particular IPR.

On August 1, 2016, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted an IPR petitioned by Unified on a patent owned and asserted by Rothschild Connected Devices Innovations, LLC. The Board instituted trial on U.S. 8,788,090 over the sole claim asserted in district court litigation. A copy of the filing can be found below.

On July 5, 2016, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board dismissed IPR2016-00836, well prior to institution, due to a settlement between Verify Smart Corporation and Unified. A copy of the filing can be found below. Unified Patents Inc. v. Verify Smart Corporation, IPR2016-00836, Paper 7 (July 5, 2016) (Settled)

On August 10, 2016, Unified Patents Inc. filed a petition for inter parties review requesting review of U.S patent 5,523,791, directed to displaying images over video. The challenge, IPR2016-01571, challenged claims 2-16. A copy of the petition can be found below. Unified Patents Inc. v. John Berman, IPR2016-01571 (Aug.

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