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.

CAFC 21-1644 Uniloc (Bakhmutsky) Appeal Terminated by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

Interdigital patent challenged in China

On March 25, 2021, Unified Patents filed a Chinese invalidation request for CN101491099 owned by Interdigital. CN101491099 has been designated as essential in the SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools.

Unified is represented by JZMC Patent and Trademark Law Office, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ashraf Fawzy.

Aprese patent challenged

On March 26, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,207,924, owned by Aprese Systems Texas, LLC. The ‘924 patent relates generally to management of applications and/or services based on contextual information. It has been asserted against Toyota.

View district court litigations by Aprese. Unified is represented by Cono Carrano and Ryan Stronczer of Akin Gump and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Michelle Aspen.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,711, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

ReexamRequest-326 by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

Sound View '860 patent challenged

On March 30, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,135,860, owned by Sound View Innovations, LLC. The ‘860 patent relates to data processing that transforms web content into a format suitable for display by a client device, and has been asserted against Facebook.

View district court litigations by Sound View. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Ellyar Barazesh, Ashraf Fawzy, and Jessica L.A. Marks.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,713, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

Sound View '860 Reexam Request by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

Context Directions patent challenged

On March 29, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,142,791, owned by Context Directions, LLC, which is affiliated with Jeffrey Gross. The patent relates to the use of hierarchical sensor groups in mobile devices. The ‘791 patent and its family have been asserted against Samsung and LG in district court.

View district court litigations by Context Directions. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen and Ashraf Fawzy.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,712, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

CON791 Request Reexam by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd