Troll-Busting Firm Takes On A Cloud-Patent Holder

Unified Patents, a start up company that aims to deter and counter patent trolls, has filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for an inter-partes review of a patent held by Clouding IP. According to Kevin Jakel, founder of Unified Patents, Clouding IP “is pursuing litigation against a number of defendants for allegedly infringing a patent we firmly believe to be invalid.” The defendants are Oracle, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Rackspace, SAP, Dropbox, Verizon, and EMC.