KAIST and KBS patent held unpatentable

On September 14, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) holding all claims of US Patent 9,838,720 unpatentable. The ‘720 patent is owned by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), which have participated in the HEVC Advance and MPEG-LA patent pools. Unified filed this challenge as part of its ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified was represented by Cono Carrano and Clark Gordon from Akin Gump, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding. Visit Unified’s Portal for more information about its Video Codec landscape (OPAL) and standard submission repository (OPEN). To read the decision and review the proceeding, view IPR2019-00725 on the Portal.

Another Sound View patent determined to have substantial questions of patentability, reexamination request granted

On September 11, 2020, the Central Reexamination Unit of the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Unified Patents' request for ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 6,725,456, owned and asserted by Sound View Innovations, LLC, finding substantial new questions of patentability for the challenged claim. The request was filed in an effort to protect Open Source technologies from invalid NPE assertions. The ’456 patent generally relates to ensuring quality of service in an operating system. Sound View recently asserted this patent against Cigna, Walmart, Vudu, Delta Air Lines, DISH Network, and Sling TV. 

View district court litigations by Sound View. Read the order below. Unified is represented by Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,560, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

$2,000 Awarded for Valyrian IP prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Sanjay Sharma and Arpit Jain, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 6,970,706. The '706 patent generally relates to call forwarding techniques based based on priority levels for cordless phone systems. The patent is owned by Valyrian IP LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity.

To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

WINNING SUBMISSION

US 6,970,706 The '706 patent ("Siemens") (filed on December 5, 2000) discloses a cordless digital telephonesystem which allows hierarchal call control. Claim 1 incorporates a base station operable inbroadcast mode and standard mode, broadcast mode allowing the broadcast of an incomingcall to all mobile units and standard mode which more closely resembles a conventional phonecall.

$2,000 for Intellectual Ventures '736 Prior Art

On September 9, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claims 17 and 36 of U.S. Patent 6,618,736. This patent is owned by Intellectual Ventures, an NPE. The '736 patent relates to file systems that are created and archived by providing a set of shared storage units and one or more templates. Each template includes a set of private storage units and a corresponding usage map.

The ‘736 patent is currently being asserted against Arista Networks. View Intellectual Ventures ‘736 district court litigation.

APEX STANDARDS has shared US and non-US prior art as well as corresponding claim charting against the patent.

Techson IP has provided its full validity-focused Limestone|Report, the full report link is here.

Amplified has provided a list of highly relevant invalidity search results for interested professionals to quickly begin search and analysis work. 

Traindex, a machine learning enabled search service, has provided an ordered list of most semantically similar patent documents where results are filtered to include only results with the publication date preceding that of the patent being challenged.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$1,100 Awarded for KCG Technologies '447 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Raghuram Varadarajan, who split a cash prize of $1,100 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 10,394,447. The '447 patent, directed to a virtual smart phone system for use in automobiles, is owned by KCG Technologies (an NPE) that has asserted similar patents against automotive companies in district court.

To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

WINNING SUBMISSION