Atlantic IP entity, Foras Technologies, parallel processor patent reexam granted

On November 29, 2023, less than three months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,502,958, owned and asserted by Foras Technologies, Ltd., an NPE and entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The ‘958 patent relates to lockstep processor technology where two processors are paired together, and the two processors perform exactly the same-operations and the results-are compared.(e.g., with an XOR gate).

View district court litigations by Foras Technologies. Unified is represented by Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani, in these proceedings.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019245

GEVC HEVC patent revoked in EPO

On November 28, 2023, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 2805491, owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The ‘491 patent is generally directed to video coding using parallel processing. It is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance patent pool. This filing was a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified was represented by Harry Hutchinson and Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

Empire IP entity, Fleet Connect, wireless patent reexam granted

On November 20, 2023, two months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,058,040, owned and asserted by Fleet Connect Solutions, LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP. The ‘040 patent generally relates to minimizing RF channel interference in a device where two RF standards operate in the same frequency bands. The patent is being asserted against devices that have the ability to communicate using LTE, 802.11, or Bluetooth. Companies asserted against include Penske Auto, Aptiv, USIC Locating Services, Rivian, and Peloton.

View district court litigations by Fleet Connect. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Mark Rawls at Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jessica L.A. Marks.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015301

Ideahub (former ETRI) HEVC Patent Revoked in EPO

On November 22, 2023, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 3402195. The EP ‘195 patent is currently owned by Ideahub Inc. but was previously 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.

Unified is represented by Harry Hutchinson and Owain Summers at HGF Law and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

SOTAT surveillance patent reexam granted

On November 24, 2023, less than a month after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,854,207, owned and asserted by SOTAT, LLC, an NPE. The ‘207 patent relates to a mobile surveillance system that connects to a mobile device and has been asserted against twelve defendants, including Canary Connect, HeathCo, Wyze Labs, Adobe Systems, Vivint, and Resideo.

View district court litigations by SOTAT. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Michelle Aspen.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019294