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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.

On September 2, 2016, Unified Patents Inc. filed a petition for IPR against all claims of U.S. 7,490,037, a patent ostensibly owned and asserted by Digital Audio Encoding Systems, LLC against 28 companies since June 2016. A copy of the petition is found below. Unified Patents Inc. v.

Patent is the set of exclusive rights given to the inventor of anything that no other person or company has invented earlier. In case any other person starts making that particular product, without the consent of original patent holder or inventor, then it is categorized as infringement.

Around 2:21 the video shows Unified's 2015 Patent Dispute Report statistics The U.S. economy is driven by innovation, but unwelcome "patent trolls" are gunking up the system. Patent reform bills sit idle in Congress as the "trolls" set up companies for the sole purpose, critics say, of shaking down inventors while never creating anything.