Patent Quality

VVC Patent Challenges on the Horizon

The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to examine the quality of patents alleged to be essential to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard. Patents owned by Ideahub, Intellectual Discovery, IP Bridge, and others are being reviewed.

This project is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts to protect and improve the quality of patents in the Video Codec SEP Zone. By analyzing the validity and/or essentiality of alleged standard essential patents, Unified seeks to deter licensors’ unreasonable licensing expectations, royalty stacking, and the assertion of invalid or non-essential patents.

Primos Storage cloud services patents campaign - invalidity charts coming soon

The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against patents owned and asserted by Primos Storage Technology LLC, an NPE. The patents listed below generally relate to transaction-based storage systems. All five patents listed below have been asserted against Amazon.

BitHarmony video streaming patent campaign - invalidity charts coming soon

The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against patents owned and asserted by BitHarmony LLC, an NPE. The patents listed below generally relate to video streaming products and services with features such as adaptive bit rate streaming and media encryption and decryption. All five patents listed below have been asserted against Amazon.

Jeffrey Gross entity, Lone Star Document Management, document proofing patent campaign - invalidity charts coming soon

The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 6,918,082, owned by Lone Star Document Management, LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The ‘082 patent is generally related to a system for reviewing, versioning, and commenting on electronic documents in portable document format (PDF) delivered over a network, such as the internet. The patent has been recently asserted against HCL America, Dropbox, Document Logistix, IBM, Atlassian, and Oracle.

iScan2D Technologies device-pairing patent campaign - invalidity charts coming soon

The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 11,664,123, owned by iScan2D Technologies, LLC. The ‘123 patent is broadly directed to wirelessly pairing a “wearable activity device” and a “mobile device” with at least one “camera sensor” via a “color coded digital scannable media”. The patent has been asserted against Apple.