The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) continued to see petitions for AIA review filed against prolific litigants in July, including a wave of petitions against Uniloc Corporation Pty. Limited across four separate campaigns, with petitions also brought against General Patent Corporation, Intellectual Ventures LLC (IV), Papst Licensing GmbH & Company Kg, and Quarterhill Inc. Meanwhile, throughout July, the Board instituted trial for inter partes reviews (IPRs) filed in semiconductor campaigns waged by Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology, with trial also instituted in campaigns related to network data compression (Realtime Data LLC), servers and data management (IV), and anti-malware technology (Finjan Holdings, Inc.). Final decisions issued by the Board in July included one that cancelled claims from a patent that has been asserted by Rothschild Connected Devices Innovations, LLC, an NPE controlled by inventor Leigh M. Rothschild, against more than 60 defendants.

IYM Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of General Patent Corporation (GPC), has filed suit against Advanced Micro Devices (1:16-cv-00649). The complaint asserts a single patent (7,448,012) generally related to generating and optimizing the layout of an integrated circuit device. IYM identifies as accused products AMD’s 28nm and 32nm products. This suit is the second time that the NPE has asserted the ‘012 patent in litigation.