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On February 11, 2019, Unified added a $1,000 contest to PATROLL seeking prior art for US 7,010,508 owned by and asserted by Landmark Technology, LLC, a well-known NPE. The '508 patent specifically relates to a means for screening loan applications, but has been broadly asserted against a variety of products and services using e-commerce systems.
The contest will expire on May 13, 2019. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.
On February 1, 2019, Unified filed a petition (with Wilmer Hale serving as lead counsel) for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,767,824, owned by Velos Media, LLC (Velos) as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.
The ’824 patent and its corresponding extended patent family is one of the larger families known to be owned by Velos. Velos claims to have and seeks to license patents allegedly essential to the HEVC / H.265 standard. The ’824 patent, originally assigned to Sharp Laboratories of America, was transferred to Velos Media in 2017.
A declaration likely related to the ‘824 patent is available here via OPEN—Unified’s free, fully-searchable standard submission repository. After conducting an independent analysis, Unified has determined that the ‘824 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 IPR2019-00635 on the Portal.
On January 31, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) granted Realtime Adaptive Streaming, LLC’s (a Realtime Data affiliate and well-known NPE) request for adverse judgment and cancellation of all instituted claims in IPR2018-00883 filed by Unified. This request comes shortly after the PTAB’s decision to institute trial for U.S. Patent 8,934,535, directed to selecting an asymmetric compressor algorithm for compressing data, storing the compressed data, and decompressing the data. The ‘535 patent has been asserted in 26 district court cases, 6 of which were pending as of this decision.
Unified was represented by Lionel Lavenue at Finnegan in this proceeding. View all of Realtime's District Court litigation here. To read the decision, visit Unified’s PTAB Portal.
On January 29, 2019, as part of its ongoing efforts in its new SEP Video Codec Zone, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,729,891. The '891 patent is owned by GE Video Compression, LLC (GEVC) which is participating in the HEVC Advance patent pool (HEVC Advance patent list).
The ‘891 patent and its corresponding extended patent family is one of the largest families known to be owned by GEVC and represents approximately 13.6% of GEVC's known U.S. assets. The ’891 patent, originally assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, was transferred to GEVC in 2015.
HEVC Advance claims that certain claims of the '891 patent are essential to the HEVC standard. After conducting an independent analysis, Unified has determined that the ‘891 patent is likely unpatentable.
Unified is represented by Eric Buresh of Erise IP in this proceeding. 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 IPR2019-00617 on the Portal.
Here at Unified, we are constantly working to improve the PTAB, District Court and SEP-related data we provide on our public Portal. Here are a few of our recent additions to the site.
Portal Updates
SEP Zone Updates
Click the links above for more details or visit our Portal to start using these new features today!
