Intellectual Ventures patent challenged

On February 10, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,291,475, owned by Intellectual Ventures II LLC. The ‘475 patent is generally directed to detecting driving violations and reporting those violations to a recipient. The ‘475 patent was asserted against several car companies in 2021, including Toyota, GM, and Honda.

View district court litigations by Intellectual Ventures. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Roshan Mansinghani.

GEVC patent successfully challenged at the EPO

On January 20, 2022, all of the original claims of EP 3 410 716 B1, owned by GE Video Compression LLC (GEVC), were found unpatentable based on a challenge filed by Unified. The EP‘716 patent is generally related to coding of significance maps and transform coefficient blocks and was claimed as essential to HEVC as part of the Access Advance patent pool. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Read the entire filing below. Unified is represented by Dr. Simon Q. Lud, European Patent Attorney at Maiwald Intellectual Property, and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Roshan Mansinghani.

Helios Streaming/Ideahub patent held invalid

On February 7, 2022, 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 8,645,562 invalid and denying Helios' motion to amend the claims. The ‘562 patent is owned by Ideahub, Inc., and licensed to and asserted by Helios Streaming, LLC, an NPE. The patent is directed to an adaptive streaming service using metadata and is being asserted against Showtime, Vudu, Crackle, and Starz. Helios is asserting the ‘562 patent against streaming media content in accordance with the MPEG-DASH standard and video-on-demand (VOD) systems. 

View district court litigation by Ideahub and Helios. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by WilmerHale and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jung Hahm, in this proceeding.

Dynamic IP Deals subsidiary, AuthWallet, patent likely invalid

On February 4, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 9,292,852, owned by AuthWallet, LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of Dynamic IP Deals. The '852 generally relates to transaction processing services. It has been asserted against CitiGroup, Square, American Express, Starbucks, and Nordstrom.

View district court litigations by AuthWallet, LLC. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Jason Mudd of Erise IP and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jordan Rossen.

Velos '086 patent successfully challenged

On January 27, 2022, less than a year after Unified filed its request for ex parte reexamination, the USPTO issued a final office action rejecting all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,743,086, owned by Velos Media. The '086 patent was purportedly essential to the HEVC standard. During reexamination, to overcome the rejections, Velos was forced to greatly amend the claims of the '086 patent such that they are no longer essential.

Unified is represented by David Cavanaugh, Scott Bertulli, Brian Lambson, and Jonathan Knight from WilmerHale and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding. To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014637.