DivX, LLC patent challenged

On September 3, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against US Patent 10,326,987, owned by DivX, LLC, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp., as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The '987 patent is being asserted against Hulu and is directed to encoding alternative streams of video for use in adaptive bitrate streaming.

Visit Unified’s 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 IPR2021-01476 on Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj, David McCombs, and Jon Bowser of Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

MemoryWeb patent challenged

On September 3, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 10,621,228, owned by MemoryWeb, LLC, an NPE. The '228 patent generally relates to content management systems. It is currently being asserted against Apple and Samsung.

View district court litigations by MemoryWeb, LLC. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Ashraf Fawzy.

Federal Circuit Affirms Unified Patents’ Successful IPR Against Ortiz & Associates Consulting

On August 31, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed the PTAB’s ruling that all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,971,914, are unpatentable in a summary affirmance under Rule 36, effectively ending the longstanding assertion of those claims. The ‘914 patent, directed to controlling a multimedia video device to play video data through the operation of a wireless device, has been asserted against Google and Roku. See Ortiz & Associates Consulting, LLC. v. Unified Patents, LLC, No. 2021-1085 (Fed. Cir. August 31, 2021) (Rule 36 Affirmance). The case was argued by in-house counsel Alyssa Holtslander and Angela Oliver from Haynes and Boone. Unified was also represented by in-house counsel Roshan Mansinghani and Jonathan Stroud as well as Raghav Bajaj, Debbie McComas, David O’Dell, and David McCombs at Haynes and Boone.

To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see our PTAB Portal.

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.

Arigna Technology Limited reexamination request granted

On August 13, 2021, less than four weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,397,318. Formerly owned by Mitsubishi Electric Corp, the ‘318 patent is currently owned by Arigna Technology Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited subsidiary, and has been asserted against several auto makers such as Daimler AG, Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Nissan, and others.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019015.