RPX Corporation Invalidates Rothschild Patent

RPX Corporation (NASDAQ: RPXC), the leading provider of patent risk and discovery management solutions, today announced that yesterday, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidated all instituted claims on all grounds in a final written decision in an inter partes review filed by RPX against a patent owned by Rothschild Connected Devices Innovations, LLC (RCDI).

RCDI asserted the patent at issue in a litigation campaign brought in the Eastern District of Texas that has targeted more than 65 defendants operating in sectors including automotive, energy, and home automation.

The invalidated patent is US 8,788,090 and the proceeding is IPR2016-00443.

To date, RPX has filed 40 petitions for inter partes review and has a ~95% merits-based institution rate.