JustService patent held invalid

On February 16, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. JustService Net LLC holding all of the independent claims and all known asserted dependent claims of U.S. Patent 10,476,868 unpatentable. The '868 patent is related to cloud and data-storage technology and was asserted against Dropbox.

View district court litigation by JustService.net. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen in this proceeding.

Charge Fusion Technologies patent challenged

On February 25, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,853,488, owned by Charge Fusion Technologies, LLC. The ‘488 patent generally relates to improvements to electric vehicle charging, e.g., by taking into account user preferences for charging and other attributes (cost of electricity). This patent is currently being asserted against Tesla.

View district court litigations by Charge Fusion Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel David Seastrunk and Michelle Aspen.

Interdigital AV1 patent deemed essential by SISVEL successfully challenged in China

On January 4, 2022, the China National Intellectual Property Administration declared all challenged claims of CN101491099, owned by Interdigital, invalid. CN101491099 has been designated as essential in the SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools.

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

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IP Edge entity, Diatek Licensing, patent challenged

On February 24, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,079,752, owned by NPE and IP Edge entity, Diatek Licensing LLC. The ‘752 patent is generally directed to providing playback control functions (e.g., fast-forward, rewind, etc.) for digital video streaming devices. The patent is relevant to the MPEG standard and has been asserted against several streaming companies such as AccuWeather, Fox Broadcasting Company, Home Box Office (HBO), MLB Advanced Media, Redbox, and Roku.

View district court litigations by Diatek Licensing. To read this petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Cono Carrano, Ryan Stronczer, and Sohrab Hajarian of Akin Gump, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Jordan Rossen.

IP Edge entity Orbit Licensing reexamination granted

On February 10, 2022, three months 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 9,578,040, owned and asserted by Orbit Licensing, an IP Edge entity. The '040 patent is generally directed to packet communications, including determining whether a service request is authorized or not. The '040 patent has been asserted 10 times, including against the SPF protocol (an open standard of the IETF) of several companies such as EidosMedia, Red Hat, OnApp, Akamai, Tencent, Limelight Networks, Wowza Media, CodePen, Velocix, and The MathWorks.

View district court litigation by Orbit Licensing. Unified is represented by James Stein of Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jung Hahm.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014897.