Velos HEVC video codec patent challenged

On September 18, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,786,596, owned by Velos Media, an NPE. The '596 patent generally relates to methods of encoding video data, and specifically encoding or decoding coefficients for a transform unit using sign bit hiding. The patent has not been in litigation but is related to patents that have been asserted against streaming applications.

View district court litigations by Velos. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser and Dan Smith of Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Vinu Raj, in this proceeding.

Fortress Investment entity DivX video playback patent challenge granted

On September 18, 2026, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,574,716, owned and asserted by DivX LLC, an NPE and entity of Fortress Investment Group LLC. This overcame DivX’s Pre-Order paper seeking denial. The ‘716 patent is generally directed to progressive video playback systems where a client application on a device retrieves portions of a media file from a remote server and plays the media as it is being downloaded. The ‘716 patent has not been asserted in litigation, however, it is related to U.S. Patent 10,412,141 which was asserted against Realtek, TCL, and others.

View district court litigations by DivX. Unified is represented by Jonathan Bowser and Adam Erickson at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Jenn Bisk, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90016490

IdeaHub H.266 / VVC codec patent challenged

On August 28, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,212,422, owned by Ideahub Inc., an NPE. The ‘422 patent is directed to video coding and decoding using quantization parameters based on the block information of the specific encoding or decoding object block. A related patent was asserted in Europe. The ‘422 patent has been designated as essential to the VVC standard in the Access Advance’s VVC patent pool.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel, TJ Murphy and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

Velos H.265 video codec patent challenged

On July 20, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against 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 against H.265 compliant devices from Bytedance and Disney.

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.

Fortress Investment entity DivX video playback patent challenged

On July 20, 2026, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,574,716, owned and asserted by DivX LLC, an NPE and entity of Fortress Investment Group LLC. The ‘716 patent is generally directed to progressive video playback systems where a client application on a device retrieves portions of a media file from a remote server and plays the media as it is being downloaded. The ‘716 patent has not been asserted in litigation, however, it is related to U.S. Patent 10,412,141 which was asserted against Realtek, TCL, Samsung, Hulu, and Amazon.

View district court litigations by DivX. Unified is represented by Jonathan Bowser and Adam Erickson at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Jenn Bisk, in this proceeding.