Ideahub HEVC patent held invalid

On February 5, 2024, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Ideahub Inc. holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 11,122,274 unpatentable. The '274 patent generally relates to a video compression method for improving compression efficiency in directional intra-prediction. The patent has been designated essential to the Access Advance patent pool and this filing is part of Unified’s continued efforts in the SEP Video Codec Zone.

View district court litigation by Ideahub. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal.  Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj and David McCombs of Hayes Boone, and by in-house counsel Roshan Mansinghani and Michelle Aspen.

InterDigital AV1 patent held invalid after appeal in China

The Beijing Intellectual Property Court confirmed the invalidity of all challenged claims of CN101491099, owned by Interdigital. The CN’099 patent was previously deemed essential in the SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools.

Unified was represented by Tao Chen, Yu Yan, and Peter Zhang of the Beijing Wei Chixue Law Firm, and the case was managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

VideoLabs MPEG patent claims invalidated

On December 18, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. VL Collective IP LLC holding challenged claims 1, 3, 5, 9, 12, 13, and 15 of U.S. Patent 8,605,794 unpatentable. Owned and asserted by VL Collective IP LLC, a VideoLabs Inc. entity, the '794 patent is generally directed to synchronizing data segments and references MPEG1.

View district court litigations by VL Collective IP. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Raghav Bajaj, Jon Bowser, and David McCombs of Haynes and Boone, LLP and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

Helios MPEG-DASH patent challenged

On December 14, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,362,130, owned and asserted by Helios Streaming LLC, an NPE and entity of Ideahub, Inc. The ‘130 patent is relevant to systems that are compliant with the MPEG-DASH standard; its claims are directed to providing adaptive HTTP streaming services using metadata of media content to ensure smooth playback. It has been asserted against Crackle, Starz, Showtime, Vudu, Fandango, Warner Brothers, and HBO.

View district court litigations by Helios. Unified is represented by Ryan Stronczer and Cono Carrano of Akin Gump, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen.

Two Chinese ETRI video codec patents held invalid

The Beijing Intellectual Property Court found all claims of two Chinese patents, CN103384333B and CN104219523B, invalid after the patent owner, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), filed an appeal. The CN’333 and CN’523 patents are related to patents that are designated essential to the Access Advance (formerly known as HEVC Advance) patent pool as well as SISVEL’s AV1 and VP9 patent pools.

Unified is represented by Tao Chen, Yu Yan, and Peter Zhang at Wei Chixue Law Firm, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.