Acacia entity, Monarch Networking Solutions, patent challenged as likely invalid

On October 1, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,756,507, owned by Monarch Networking Solutions LLC, an NPE and an Acacia Research entity. The ‘507 patent is generally directed to device-based dual-factor authentication using one-time passwords. The ‘507 patent is currently being asserted against Cisco, Meraki, and Duo Security.

View district court litigations by Monarch Networking Solutions. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by John Baird, Patrick McPherson, and Paul Belnap of Duane Morris LLP, and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

Richman Technology patent challenged as likely invalid

On October 1, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,449,484, owned by Richman Technology Corp, an NPE. The ’484 patent is generally related to security hardware and real-time security monitoring software systems . The ‘484 patent has been asserted against security system makers such as ADT, Assa Abloy, Skylink Technologies, Google, and others.

View district court litigations by Richman Technology. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Ellyar Barazesh of Stoel Rives LLP, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica Marks, in this proceeding.

Fat Statz patent challenged as likely invalid

On October 1, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,757,066, owned by Fat Statz, LLC, an NPE. The ’066 patent is generally directed to a behavior management system that allows users to track and compare fitness and health-related data. The ‘066 patent was asserted against Samsung in early 2020.

View district court litigations by Fat Statz. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jung Hahm, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Kioba Processing patent challenged as likely invalid

On October 1, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 6,931,382, owned by Kioba Processing, LLC, an IP Investments affiliate and well-known NPE. The ’382 patent is generally directed to blocking and unblocking payment instruments, and it has been asserted against Discover and American Express.

View district court litigations by Kioba Processing. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Another Velos Media patent held unpatentable

On September 29, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Velos Media, LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 10,110,898 unpatentable. The ’898 patent, generally directed to video quantization techniques for limiting the data that results from the encoding process, represents one of the largest patent families known to be owned by Velos Media, LLC.

Velos claims to have and seeks to license patents allegedly essential to the HEVC / H.265 standard. The family of the '898 patent, originally assigned to Sony Corporation, was transferred to Velos Media in 2018.  

Visit Unified’s Public Portal for more information about its Video Codec landscape (OPAL) and standard submission repository (OPEN). To read the petition and review the case record, view IPR2019-00763 on the Portal. Unified was represented by Andrew Sommer from Greenberg Traurig and in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Ashraf Fawzy, in this proceeding.