The detailed information for PTAB case with proceeding number IPR2021-00343 filed by Micron Technology, Inc. et al. against Unification Technologies LLC et al. on Dec 22, 2020. This includes filing dates, application numbers, tech centers, patent numbers, and current case status.

Case Details

Proceeding Number
IPR2021-00343
Filing Date
Dec 22, 2020
Petitioner
Micron Technology, Inc. et al.
Respondent
Unification Technologies LLC et al.
Status
Final Written Decision
Respondent Application Number
13607486
Respondent Tech Center
2100
Respondent Patent Number
8533406
Institution Decision Date
Jul 9, 2021
Termination Date
Jul 8, 2022

Proceeding Documents

The table below shows documents filed in the case, listing each document name, filing date, document type, and filing party. Tracking these filings indicates the activity of the parties involved in the case, and the types of documents filed can provide insights into the legal strategies being employed.


Document NameFiling DateCategoryFiling Party

Alert me when new update on this case

Other: other court decision

Nov 13, 2024PAPERBOARD

Other: Fed Circuit mandate

Nov 13, 2024PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner Unification Technologies LLC's Notice of Appeal

Jan 5, 2023PAPERPATENT OWNER

Order: Denying Request for Director Review

Nov 29, 2022PAPERBOARD

Ex. 3100

Aug 8, 2022EXHIBITBOARD

Patent Owner's Request for Director Review

Aug 5, 2022PAPERPATENT OWNER

Final Written Decision: JUDGMENT Final Written Decision Determining Some Challenged Claims Unpatentable 35 U.S.C. § 318(a)

Jul 8, 2022PAPERBOARD

EXPUNGED

Jun 28, 2022PAPERBOARD

Order: Denying Motion to Dismiss

Jun 28, 2022PAPERBOARD

Petitioners' Opposition to Patent Owner's Motion to Dismiss

May 16, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Ex. 1040 - Intervenor's Response to Order of November 30, 2021

May 16, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

EXPUNGED

May 9, 2022PAPERPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2014 - Vidal PHV '343

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2015 - Docket Sheet '343

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2016 - Winston website '343

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2017 - Vidal Micron cases '343

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2018 - Micron's WDTX Answer and Counterclaims '343

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2019 - 3-5-21 Markman Hearing '343

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2020 - Biden Nomination '343

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2021 - Nomination of Vidal '343

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2022 - Vidal motion to withdraw '343

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2023 - NY Times Article '343

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner's Motion to Dismiss

May 9, 2022PAPERPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2014 - Vidal's Pro Hac Vice

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2015 - Docket Sheet

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2016 - Winston Website

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2017 - Vidal's Micron cases

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2018 - Micron's Answer and Counterclaims

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2019 - 3-5-21 Markman Hearing Transcript

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2020 - Biden's Nomination of Vidal

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2021 - Nomination of Vidal

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2022 - VIdal's Motion to Withdraw

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2023 - NY Times Article

May 9, 2022EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Other: Hearing transcript

Apr 28, 2022PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner's Demonstratives

Apr 11, 2022PAPERPATENT OWNER

Ex. 1039 - Petitioners' Hearing Demonstratives

Apr 11, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petitioners' Updated Exhibit List

Apr 11, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Patent Owner's Sur-Reply to Petitioner's Reply to Patent Owner's Response

Mar 14, 2022PAPERPATENT OWNER

ORDER Setting Oral Argument 37 C.F.R. sec 42.70

Mar 9, 2022PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner's Request for Oral Hearing

Mar 2, 2022PAPERPATENT OWNER

Petitioners' Request for Oral Argument

Mar 2, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioners' Second Updated Mandatory Notices

Feb 10, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioners' Reply to Patent Owner's Response

Jan 14, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Ex. 1038 - Deposition Transcript of Dr. Vijay Madisetti taken on January 7, 2022

Jan 14, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Dell���s Updated Power of Attorney

Jan 4, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

HP���s Updated Power of Attorney

Jan 4, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Micron���s Updated Power of Attorney

Jan 4, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioners��� Updated Mandatory Notices

Jan 4, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner's Notice of Deposition of Dr. Vijay K. Madisetti

Dec 7, 2021PAPERPETITIONER

Notice of Stipulation to Modify Scheduling Order

Dec 7, 2021PAPERPETITIONER

Patent Owner's Response

Oct 6, 2021PAPERPATENT OWNER

Declaration of Dr. Vijay K. Madisetti

Oct 6, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Curriculum Vitae of Dr. Vijay K. Madisetti

Oct 6, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Transcript of Deposition of R. Jacob Baker, Ph.D., P.E., taken September 16, 2021

Oct 6, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Definitions of ���address bus���, ���bus���, and ���data bus��� from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, Sixth Edition

Oct 6, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner's Third Updated Mandatory Notices Per 37 C.F.R. 42.8

Oct 1, 2021PAPERPATENT OWNER

Order: Granting Petitioner's Motions for Pro Hac Vice Admission of Michael R. Rueckheim - 37 CFR 42.10

Sep 21, 2021PAPERBOARD

Petitioner's Motion For Pro Hac Vice Admission of Michael R. Rueckheim

Sep 13, 2021PAPERPETITIONER

Ex. 1037 - Declaration of Michael R. Rueckheim in Support of Motion for Pro Hac Vice Admission

Sep 13, 2021EXHIBITPETITIONER

Patent Owner's Second Updated Power of Attorney

Sep 13, 2021PAPERPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner's Second Updated Mandatory Notices Per 37 C.F.R. 42.8

Sep 13, 2021PAPERPATENT OWNER

Other: other

Sep 9, 2021PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner's Notice of Deposition of Jacob Baker, Ph.D., P.E.

Aug 27, 2021PAPERPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner Unification Technologies LLC's Unopposed Motion for Pro Hac Vice Admission of Jonathan H. Rastegar Under 37 C.F.R. 42.10(c)

Aug 27, 2021PAPERPATENT OWNER

Declaration of Jonathan H. Rastegar In Support of Unopposed Motion for Pro Hac Vice Admission

Aug 27, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner's Updated Power of Attorney

Aug 23, 2021PAPERPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner's Updated Mandatory Notices Per 37 C.F.R. 42.8

Aug 23, 2021PAPERPATENT OWNER

Decision Granting Institution of Inter Partes Review

Jul 9, 2021PAPERBOARD

Scheduling Order

Jul 9, 2021PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner's Preliminary Response

Apr 13, 2021PAPERPATENT OWNER

Who's who in SSD? - Fusion-io, https://storagesearch.com/fusion-io.html (last visited Apr. 6, 2021).

Apr 13, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

4 strategic splits in SSD market history, https://www.storagesearch.com/strategic-splitsin-ssd-history.html (last visited Apr. 6, 2021).

Apr 13, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

SanDisk To Acquire Fusion-io, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhandy/2014/06/17/sandisk-to-acquire-fusion-io/?sh=3e8f68275e0c (last visited Apr. 6, 2021).

Apr 13, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

US8533406B2 - Apparatus, system, and method for identifying data that is no longer in use - Google Patents, https://patents.google.com/patent/US8533406B2/en?oq=8%2c533%2c406 (last visited Apr. 6, 2021).

Apr 13, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

How Do SSDs Work? ��� ExtremeTech, https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/210492-extremetech-explains-how-do-ssds-work (last visited Apr. 6, 2021).

Apr 13, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Claim Construction Order, Unification Techs. LLC v. Micron Tech. Inc., No. 6:20-cv-500 (W.D. Tex. 2020), ECF No. 67.

Apr 13, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Plaintiff���s Opening Claim Construction Brief, Unification Techs. LLC v. Micron Tech. Inc., No. 6:20-cv-500 (W.D. Tex. 2020), ECF No. 52.

Apr 13, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Definition SSD TRIM, https://searchstorage.techtarget.com/definition/TRIM (last visited Apr. 6, 2021).

Apr 13, 2021EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Notice of Accord Filing Date

Jan 13, 2021PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner's Power of Attorney

Jan 12, 2021PAPERPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner's Mandatory Notices Per 37 C.F.R. 42.8

Jan 12, 2021PAPERPATENT OWNER

Ex. 1001 - U.S. Pat. No. 8,533,406

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1002 - U.S. Pat. No. 7,624,239

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1005 - American National Standard for Information Technology -- AT Attachment with Packet Interface -- 6 (ATA/ATAPI-6), ANSI INCITS 361-2002 (Sept. 2002) (excerpts filed with permission)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1006 - American National Standard for Information Technology -- AT Attachment with Packet Interface -- 7 Volume 1 -- Register Delivered Command Set, Logical Register Set (ATA/ATAPI-7 V1), (Feb. 7, 2005) (excerpts filed with permission)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1007 - Serial ATA (SATA) Revision 2.5, Serial ATA International Organization (Oct. 27, 2005) [Part 1 of 5]

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1007 - Serial ATA (SATA) Revision 2.5, Serial ATA International Organization (Oct. 27, 2005) [Part 3 of 5]

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1007 - Serial ATA (SATA) Revision 2.5, Serial ATA International Organization (Oct. 27, 2005) [Part 4 of 5]

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1007 - Serial ATA (SATA) Revision 2.5, Serial ATA International Organization (Oct. 27, 2005) [Part 5 of 5]

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1008 - William D. Brown and Joe E. Brewer, Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Technology (IEEE 1998) [Part 2of 2]

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1009 - Brian Dipert and Markus Levy, Designing with Flash Memory (Annabooks 1994)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1011 - H. Niijima, Design of a Solid-State File Using Flash EEPROM

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1012 - Original Complaint for Patent Infringement, Unification Techs. LLC v. Micron Tech. Inc., No. 20-cv-500 (W.D. Tex. 2020), ECF No. 1

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1013 - Exhibit B to Plaintiff's First Amended Infringement Contentions- Unification Technologies' Allegations of Infringement with Respect to U.S. Patent No. 8,533,406, Unification Techs. LLC v. Micron Tech. Inc., No. 20-cv-500 (W.D. Tex. 2020)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1014 - Eran Gal et al., Mapping Structures for Flash Memories- Techniques and Open Problems, PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE-SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING ("SwSTE'05")

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1015 - U.S. Provisional Pat. No. 60-873,111

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1017 - Frank Shu, Notification of Deleted Data Proposal for ATA8-ACS2, T13 (rev. 0, Apr. 21, 2007)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1021 - Public file history of U.S. Pat. No. 8,533,406 [Part 1 of 3]

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1021 - Public file history of U.S. Pat. No. 8,533,406 [Part 2 of 3]

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1021 - Public file history of U.S. Pat. No. 8,533,406 [Part 3 of 3]

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1022 - MARC record for the print digital version of the IEEE International Conference on Software

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1003 - U.S. Pat. No. 7,057,942

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1007 - Serial ATA (SATA) Revision 2.5, Serial ATA International Organization (Oct. 27, 2005) [Part 2 of 5]

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1008 - William D. Brown and Joe E. Brewer, Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory Technology (IEEE 1998) [Part 1 of 2]

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1010 - Eran Gal et al., Mapping Structures for Flash Memories: Techniques and Open Problems, PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and ENGINEERING ("SwSTE'05")

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1018 - Frank Shu and Nathan Obr, Notification of Deleted Data Proposal for ATA8-ACS2 Revision 1, T13 (July 26, 2007)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1019 - Frank Shu and Nathan Obr, Notification of Deleted Data Proposal for ATA8-ACS2 Revision 2, T13 (September 5, 2007)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1020 - U.S. Pat. No. 6,766,432

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1023 - MARC record for the print version of the IEEE International Conference on Software

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1029 - Amended Scheduling Order, Unification Techs. LLC v. Micron Tech. Inc., No. 20-cv-500 (W.D. Tex. 2020), ECF No. 48

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1030 - Expert Report of Sylvia Hall-Ellis, Ph.D. in Support of Public Availability of the Gal Publication

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1032 - Micron's Preliminary Identification of Extrinsic Evidence, Unification Techs. LLC v. Micron Tech. Inc., No. 20-cv-500 (W.D. Tex. 2020)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1035 - U.S. Pat. No. 5,404,485

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1024 - MARC record for Library of Congress

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1025 - Curriculum vitae of Sylvia Hall-Ellis, Ph.D.

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1026 - Curriculum vitae of Jacob Baker, Ph.D., P.E.

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1027 - Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Software Science, Technology and Engineering, IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1031 - Judge Albright, ORDER GOVERNING PROCEEDINGS PATENT CASE (Ver. 3.2)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1033 - Plaintiff's Revised Claim Constructions, Unification Techs. LLC v. Micron Tech. Inc., No. 20-cv-500 (W.D. Tex. 2020)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1034 - Mapping Structures for Flash Memories- techniques and open problems, IEEE XPLORE

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1036 - Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, Civil Case Processing in the Federal District Courts (2009)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petitioner HP Power of Attorney

Dec 22, 2020PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioners Dell Power of Attorney

Dec 22, 2020PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioners Micron Power of Attorney

Dec 22, 2020PAPERPETITIONER

Ex. 1016 - Docket Report for Unification Techs. LLC v. Micron Tech. Inc., No. 20-cv-500 (W.D. Tex. 2020) (accessed Dec. 22, 2020)

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1028 - Filed Stipulations of Petitioners for U.S. Patent No. 8,533,406

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Ex. 1004 - Declaration of R. Jacob Baker, Ph.D., P.E.

Dec 22, 2020EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petition re US Patent No. 8,533,406

Dec 22, 2020PAPERPETITIONER