Joao entity Caselas transactions patent held invalid

On October 17, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Caselas, LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,715,691 unpatentable. Owned by Caselas, LLC, a Raymond Anthony Joao entity, the '691 patent is generally directed to providing transaction history information including charge-back information.

Caselas has asserted the '691 patent against over 40 banks and merchant services companies, including First Citizens Bank, UBS Bank, First National Bank of Omaha, TruWest Credit Union, and Electronic Merchant Systems.

View district court litigations by Caselas. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Larissa Bifano and Zach Conrad of DLA Piper and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen, Ellyar Barazesh, and Ashraf Fawzy, in this proceeding.

Pedersen '920 message distribution patent challenged

On October 14, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 6,965,920, owned and asserted by Peter Henrik Pedersen. The '920 patent is generally directed to the specification and management of how messages are distributed to recipients. The patent has been asserted against several companies including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Zoho Corp., Salesforce, Oracle, Adobe, Intuit, Wix.com, Zendesk, and others.

View district court litigations by Pedersen. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Jon Bowser and Matt Beck of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

PacSec3 '190 networking patent successfully challenged

On October 5, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,789,190, owned by PacSec3, an NPE. PacSec3 was formed in 2020 with NACAR IP LLC as its managing member. NACAR IP was also formed in early 2020 with Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), a patent monetization company, identified as its managing member. The ‘190 patent had been asserted against F5 Networks, NetScout Systems, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee, Cisco, and Juniper Networks.

View district court litigation by PacSec3. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser, Raghav Bajaj, and Angela Oliver of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jordan Rossen.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014756.

Dominion Harbor entity, Sovereign Peak Ventures, patent held invalid

On October 3, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,042,457 unpatentable. Owned by Sovereign Peak Ventures, a Dominion Harbor entity, the ’457 patent relates to video processing and has been asserted against LG, TCL, Hisense, ASUSTek, and HP.

View district court litigations by Sovereign Peak Ventures. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen, Ashraf Fawzy, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

ETRI/HBNU patent challenged

On September 28, 2022, Unified filed a petition for post grant review (PGR) against U.S. Patent 11,212,553, owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and Hanbat National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation.  The ‘553 patent is directed to decoding methods and apparatuses that use intra-prediction to reconstruct an image. The ‘553 patent is a recently issued patent that has been identified as potentially essential to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard.

To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal.  Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj, Jonathan Bowser, Destiny Stephenson, and Angela Oliver of Hayes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.