On September 10, 2026, two months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on challenged claims 1-2, 6-10, 13-14, and 18-20 of U.S. Patent 12,088,843, owned by Velos Media, an NPE. The '843 patent is generally directed to selecting the best motion vector to encode or decode a current block of a video frame. It has been asserted in litigation against H.265 compliant devices.
View district court litigations by Velos. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser and Dagim Tilahun of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016489