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`UNIFIED PATENTS CHALLENGES AMERICA’S MOST LITIGIOUS PATENT
`ASSERTION ENTITY
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`Unified Patents Launches Review of Broad IPNav Patent to Protect Cloud Storage
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`Los Altos, CA – October 1, 2013 – Unified Patents (Unified) announced today that it will challenge a patent held by
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`Parallel Iron and backed by notorious patent assertion entity (PAE) IPNav. IPNav and Parallel Iron have asserted the
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`challenged patent, which covers “methods and systems for a storage system,” against many companies including
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`Google, Amazon, Netflix, NetApp, and Rackspace, among others. IPNav and Parallel Iron broadly claim the patent
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`covers a widely used cloud computing technology, the Hadoop Distributed File System.
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`Unified filed an Inter-Partes review with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) today referencing prior art that
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`raise substantial new questions about the validity of the patent, U.S. Patent No. 7,197,662 (“‘662 Patent”). The review,
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`the second filed by Unified in two weeks, is part of Unified’s strategy to protect cloud storage technologies from PAE
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`encroachment.
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`“We want companies, big and small, to get back to innovating instead of litigating, and they can’t do that with the
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`distraction of PAEs,” said Kevin Jakel, founder of Unified. “In the case of the ‘662 patent, Unified believes that IPNav is
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`asserting an invalid patent against cloud storage products and services.”
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`Parallel Iron’s broad interpretation of the ‘662 Patent and the widespread use of Hadoop have struck a nerve with
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`many companies. Parallel Iron has asserted this patent in district court litigation against companies such as NetApp,
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`Hitachi Data Systems, Amazon, EMC, Google, Facebook, Oracle, Adobe, LinkedIn, Cloudera, NetFlix, AT&T, LSI, and
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`RackSpace.
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`“Cloud computing is extraordinarily important to consumers, apps, and the app economy,” said Jon Potter, President
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`of the Application Developers Alliance. “All app developers and publishers should applaud Unified Patents activity to
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`protect cloud computing and to challenge trolls that seek to impose a tax on cloud storage and innovation.”
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`Parallel Iron and IPNav owner Erich Spangenberg were recently profiled in a July 13, 2013 New York Times article
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`about Patent Assertion Entities (PAE): “Has Patent, Will Sue.”
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`protecting strategic technologies. Unified’s unique solution partners startups, SMBs and large companies and then
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`proactively deters PAE/Patent Troll activity using deep patent expertise, monitoring, market intelligence, advisory
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