PTAB

DivX patent likely invalid

On March 17, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 10,326,987, owned by DivX, LLC, an affiliate of SoftBank Group Corp. This filing is part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The '987 patent was 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, Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Jeffrey M. Gross entity Callstat Solutions settles with Unified

On March 14, 2022, the Board issued an order terminating IPR2022-00287 pursuant to a joint settlement request filed by Unified Patents and Callstat Solutions LLC, an NPE and an entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. U.S. Patent 6,236,983 relates to collecting information about a computer system and applying rules to the collected information. It had been asserted against cybersecurity and client management software, including software sold by BMC Software, McAfee, and Check Point Software.

View district court litigations by Callstat Solutions LLC. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.

MemoryWeb patent likely invalid

On March 14, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified 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.

MobilePay final decision affirmed by Federal Circuit

On March 11, 2022, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed the PTAB’s ruling that all challenged claims of MobilePay’s U.S. Patent 9,800,706 are unpatentable. MobilePay is an IP Valuation Partners subsidiary.

The '706 patent is directed to systems that connect a credit card reader to a mobile phone via the audio port so the mobile phone can be used to transmit credit card data to a cloud service for decoding. The patent has been asserted against PayPal, Bank of America, Mindbody, and Intuit.

View MobilePay's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Jason Mudd and Eric Buresh of Erise IP and by in-house counsel, Jessica Marks and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

Dynamic IP Deals entity, mCom IP, patent likely invalid

On March 7, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 8,862,508, owned and asserted by mCom IP, LLC, a Dynamic IP Deals entity. The '508 patent is directed to using e-banking touchpoints to provide personalized financial services and has been asserted 24 times against various banks and financial services companies, including Wells Fargo, US Bank, PNC, IBM, and NCR Corp.

View district court litigations by mCom. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by David Tennant of Allen and Overy and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jung Hahm.