Unified files IPR against US 8,768,077 owned by Velos Media, LLC

On February 12, 2019, Unified filed a petition (with Baker Botts serving as lead counsel) for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,768,077, owned by Velos Media, LLC (Velos) as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its new SEP Video Codec Zone.

The ‘077 patent and its corresponding extended patent family is the largest family known to be owned by Velos and represents approximately 5.3% of Velos’ known U.S. assets. Including this petition, Unified has now challenged patents representing 10% of Velos’ total known U.S. assets.

Velos claims to have and seeks to license patents allegedly essential to the HEVC / H.265 standard. The ’077 patent, originally assigned to Sony, was transferred to Velos Media in 2017. After conducting an independent analysis, Unified has determined that the ‘077 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 IPR2019-00660 on the Portal.

Another HEVC Advance patent owned by GE challenged as likely invalid

On February 11, 2019, Unified (represented by Baker Botts) filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,768,804 as part of its ongoing efforts in its new SEP Video Codec Zone. The '804 patent is owned by GE Video Compression, LLC (GEVC) which is participating in the HEVC Advance patent pool (HEVC Advance patent list).

The ‘804 patent and its corresponding extended patent family is one of the largest families known to be owned by GEVC and represents approximately 32% of GEVC's known U.S. assets. Including this petition, Unified has challenged patents representing over 45% of GEVC’s known U.S. assets to date.

HEVC Advance claims that certain claims of the '804 patent are essential to the HEVC standard. After conducting an independent analysis, Unified has determined that the ‘804 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 IPR2019-00659 on the Portal.

Electronic loan processing patent added to PATROLL

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.

Unified files IPR against US 8,767,824 owned by Velos Media, LLC

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.

Realtime Adaptive abandons patent after PTAB institutes IPR

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.