Causam Enterprises patent likely invalid

On July 22, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 10,396,592. The ‘592 patent is owned by Causam Enterprises, Inc., an NPE. The ’592 patent relates to active load management systems and has been asserted in district court and the ITC against Ecobee, Resideo, Alarm.com, Xylem, and Itron.

View district court litigations by Causam Enterprises. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Michelle Aspen.

Another Aprese Systems patent challenged

On July 15, 2022, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,887,155, owned by Aprese Systems Texas, LLC. The ‘155 patent relates generally to management of applications and/or services based on contextual information. It had been asserted against Toyota, Roku, Audi, and Nissan.

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

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015071.

Another ETRI HEVC patent challenged in the EPO

On July 12, 2022, Unified Patents filed an opposition in the EPO against EP 2672708. The EP ‘708 patent is owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The patent is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance and SISVEL’s AV1 and VP9 patent pools.

Fill out the form below to read the entire filing. Unified is represented by Owain Staines at HGF Law and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

ETRI HEVC patent challenged in EPO

On July 5, 2022, Unified Patents filed an opposition in the EPO against EP 3402195. The EP ‘195 patent is owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The EP ‘195 patent involves improving the efficiency of encoding and decoding methods with particular reference to determining quantization parameters for encoding and decoding object blocks such that the quantization parameters are adaptively set according to prevailing or neighboring conditions. It is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance and SISVEL’s AV1 patent pool.

Fill out the form below to read the entire filing. Unified is represented by Harry Hutchinson at HGF Law and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

Rothschild entity Display Technologies patent likely invalid

On July 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 9,300,723. The ‘723 patent is owned by Display Technologies, LLC, an entity affiliated with prolific inventor and frequent plaintiff, Leigh M. Rothschild. The ‘723 patent is generally directed to media systems for transferring a media file from a local device (e.g., a wireless mobile device) to another device for display. It has been asserted in over 60 litigations where some accused devices rely on Bluetooth communications for the transfer of files.

View district court litigations by Display Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.