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OPAL, world's most comprehensive SEP landscape tool introduces VENN to automatically show licensor overlap

Unified Portal’s OPAL (Objective PAtent Landscape) report was designed to address asymmetries in the licensing of standard essential patents and to create a more fair and transparent patent licensing process around core patents supporting next waves of consumer technology growth. Portal’s OPAL recently launched its Advanced Analytics for IEEE, Video Codecs, and 3GPP. Users can understand if a given area contains certain contributors or patent pools. In addition, it allows for an advance breakdown between the positive and negative training labels.

For example, the graph below looks at Sisvel WiFi 6 Members that account for 155 of the positive labels (Blue Circle) and 251 of the Negative Labels (Orange Circle). This is the first tool to demonstrate the overlap between licensors, pools and standards.

 
 

In another example below, the same can be said of IEEE contributors with 884 positive labels and 2,139 negative labels.

 
 

For 3GPP, users can understand the relationship between the various generations of cellular technology.

 
 

For Video Codec, Portal users can select between the numerous pools and understand the various breakdowns in relationship to the entire video codec universe.

 
 

Unified's OPAL report is a one-of-a-kind patent landscaping tool that leverages advanced machine-learning techniques to create a flexible solution for negotiating and licensing Standard Essential Patents (SEPs). A free trial version is available through Unified's Portal. For more information, view our Methodology or email us at info@unifiedpatents.com.

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World's First Search Engine for Ex Parte Reexaminations

New Portal Product and Features:

Ex Parte Reexaminations

Unified Patents’ Portal launches the world’s first search engine for Ex Parte Reexaminations. Users now can find up-to-date information on any given case, and search by case by number, patent number, or by party. Ex Parte Reexaminations are another way to challenge patents at the USPTO and traditionally have required users to know the patent involved and search through the prosecution history to see the filings. Until the introduction of the PTAB they were the most popular way to challenge bad patents.

Now, all challenges going back 15+ years are available and searchable. In addition, users can see outcomes (when possible) and find out who challenged which patent. Combined with Unified’s PTAB Tool, Unified is the only provider to enable users to comprehensively view every patent challenge in the US.

Portal displays all Ex Parte Reexaminations for users to understand the significance and how this type of filing is being utilized. This would include searching by case number, patent number, patent owner, and requester.

Users are also able to view high-level analytics, including outcome, top parties, and filings by year.

Portal also allows users to view the docket of any given case and retrieve up-to-date information at any given time.


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Q2 2020 Developer Updates

New Portal Product and Features

Unified’s Portal PTAB docket now includes access to all the exhibits for the entire case. To view the exhibit simply click on the paper number. Users can browse through the exhibits and download them for their own use.

In addition to viewing all the exhibits, users are now able to download the entire PTAB docket for cases. 

In monitoring trends at the PTAB, Unified’s Portal now tracks specific procedural denials including 314(a) and 325(d).

Unified’s Portal also now tracks the petitioner entity type at the PTAB.

OPEN HEVC and AVC now includes improved analytics to understand the HEVC/H.265 & AVC/H.264 landscape.

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