Uniloc

Uniloc abandons own Federal Circuit appeal

On August 16, 2021, Uniloc filed a motion to dismiss its appeal and the Federal Circuit dismissed the appeal a day later. Unified had won on all issues at the PTAB in IPR2019-00453, resulting in all five claims of Uniloc’s U.S. Patent 7,020,252 being found unpatentable. Uniloc raised RPI in the case, but the Board agreed that Unified was not an RPI.

This appeal was handled by Debra McComas, Angela Oliver, Raghav Bajaj, David McCombs, and Jon Bowser from Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

To review the case record, view IPR2019-00453 on Unified’s Portal.

Federal Circuit dismisses Uniloc 2017's appeal

On March 31, 2021, the Federal Circuit granted a motion to dismiss Uniloc 2017's appeal in Case No. 21-1644 (see below). The appeal stemmed from IPR2019-01126, in which Unified received a final written decision finding all of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,519,005 unpatentable under two independent grounds. The patent relates to a method for motion estimation for a digital video encoder.

The '005 patent has been asserted against a large number of defendants, including Netflix, Google, Sling, Verizon, AT&T, ABC, Vudu, Roku, Brightcove, Telestream, Hulu, Bitmovin, Dailymotion, ESPN, and Amazon.com.

Unified was represented by Scott McKeown and Victor Cheung at Ropes and Gray, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding. View Uniloc's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified's Portal.