Multiple claims for Collision Avoidance Techs. patent held unpatentable

On November 13, 2018, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents Inc. v. Collision Avoidance Techs., LLC, IPR2017-01355 invalidating claims 21, 22, 24, 25 and 28 of U.S. Patent 6,268,803 owned and asserted by Collision Avoidance Technologies, a subsidiary of well-known NPE Quarterhill Inc. (f/k/a Wi-LAN Inc.). The '803 Patent, directed to a system and method to help drivers of vehicles avoid collisions, was previously asserted in district court litigation against Ford and Toyota.

To read the decision and to view the entire proceeding, visit our PTAB Portal. 

Unified files IPR against US 9,338,449 owned by Velos Media, LLC

On November 7, 2018, Unified filed a petition (with Wilmer Hale serving as lead counsel) for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,338,449, owned by Velos Media, LLC (Velos) as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its new SEP Video Codec Zone.

The ‘449 patent and its corresponding extended patent family is the third-largest family known to be owned by Velos and represents approximately 5.9% of Velos’s total known assets.  Velos claims to have and seeks to license patents allegedly essential to the HEVC / H.265 standard. The ’449 patent, originally assigned to Qualcomm, was transferred to Velos Media in 2017. Declarations likely related to the ‘449 patent are available here via OPEN—Unified’s free, fully-searchable standard submission repository.  After conducting an independent analysis, Unified has determined that the ‘449 patent is likely unpatentable.

Visit Unified’s Public 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 IPR2019-00194 on the Portal.

Best Orange Book Law Firms at the PTAB

 
 

Orange Book patents are published by the FDA in a report and are widely considered the most valuable patents (worth in some cases billions) since they protect FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs from being made and sold by generic manufacturers.

A recent study by Tulip Mahaseth published in IPWatchdog compared the outcome of Orange Book patents involved in PTAB and District Court cases to similar ones from 2012 to March 2018. It also evaluated PTAB outcomes based on the type of petitioner and drug. Key findings of Orange Book patents included:

PATROLL contest added for Uniloc '345 patent

On October 15, 2018, Unified added a $2,000 contest to PATROLL seeking prior art for US Patent No. 6470345, owned and asserted by Uniloc USA, a well-known NPE. The '345 patent, titled "Replacement of substrings in file/directory pathnames with numeric tokens," generally relates to a system and method for a file directory system. The contest will expire on January 14, 2019.

Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.

Another Express Mobile patent added to PATROLL

On October 18, 2018, Unified added a $1,000 contest to PATROLL seeking prior art for US Patent No. 9928044, the latest patent asserted in a wave of litigation filed by Express Mobile Inc. (an NPE). The '044 patent generally relates to a method and system for displaying a website on a mobile device. The contest will expire on January 18, 2019.

Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.