Multiple claims of Sound View patent held unpatentable by PTAB

On April 9, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents Inc. v. Sound View Innovations, LLC, IPR2018-00096 holding as unpatentable claims 1-3 and 8-10 of U.S. Patent 6,125,371 owned and asserted by Sound View Innovations, LLC, a well known NPE. The '371 patent, which describes a multi-versioning method for maintaining database records to increase data capacity, has been asserted in multiple litigations against such companies as Fidelity Investments, Facebook, and Hulu.

Unified’s own Roshan Mansinghani served as lead counsel in this proceeding. View all of Sound View’s District Court litigation here. To read the decision, visit Unified’s Portal. 

All challenged claims for another Dominion Harbor patent cancelled by PTAB

On April 5, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents Inc. v. Blue Sky Networks, LLC, IPR2018-00069 holding as unpatentable claims 1-4, 7-14, and 17-20 of U.S. Patent 8,265,691 owned and asserted by Blue Sky Networks, LLC, a Dominion Harbor subsidiary and well-known NPE. The '691 patent, directed to enhanced wireless handsets operating in a direct handset-to-handset communication mode, was asserted in multiple litigations against such companies as Toyota, Best Buy, MediaTek, Lenovo, BLU, Huawei, and Roche Diabetes Care.

David O’Dell, David McCombs, and Gregory Huh at Haynes and Boone, LLP served as Unified’s lead counsel in this proceeding. View all of Blue Sky’s District Court litigation here. To read the decision, visit Unified’s Portal. 

Unified files IPR against US 9,100,634 owned by Velos Media, LLC

On April 8, 2019, Unified filed a petition (with Finnegan serving as lead counsel) for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent No. 9,100,634, owned by Velos Media, LLC (Velos), as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

The ‘634 patent and its corresponding extended patent family is one of the largest families known to be owned by Velos. Including this petition, Unified has now challenged patents representing over 35% 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 ’634 patent, originally assigned to Panasonic Corporation, was transferred to Velos in 2016.  After conducting an independent analysis, Unified has determined that the ‘634 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 IPR2019-00883 on the Portal.

Blueprint IP patent added to PATROLL!

On April 5, 2019, Unified added a $1,000 contest to PATROLL seeking prior art for US 8,089,980 owned and asserted by Blueprint IP Solutions, LLC, an NPE. The '980 patent generally relates to a method for protecting switching between geographically separate server systems, and has been asserted in district court litigation against various companies.

The contest will expire on July 5, 2019. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.

Ryujin LLC (J. Szarzynski) patent added to PATROLL!

On April 5, 2019, Unified added a $1,000 contest to PATROLL seeking prior art for US 7,577,559 owned by and asserted by Ryujin LLC, a J. Szarzynski entity and well-known NPE. The '559 patent generally relates to a system and method for delivering media content to a user, and has been asserted in district court against Plex Inc., a client-server media player company.

The contest will expire on July 5, 2019. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.