Another Velos Media patent held unpatentable

On September 29, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Velos Media, LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 10,110,898 unpatentable. The ’898 patent, generally directed to video quantization techniques for limiting the data that results from the encoding process, represents one of the largest patent families known to be owned by Velos Media, LLC.

Velos claims to have and seeks to license patents allegedly essential to the HEVC / H.265 standard. The family of the '898 patent, originally assigned to Sony Corporation, was transferred to Velos Media in 2018.  

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 IPR2019-00763 on the Portal. Unified was represented by Andrew Sommer from Greenberg Traurig and in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Ashraf Fawzy, in this proceeding.

$2,500 for FireNet Technologies prior art

On September 29, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,739,302. The patent is owned by FireNet Technologies, LLC, an NPE and entity of IPinvestments Group. The '302 patent generally relates to firewalls for protecting network attached devices.

The ‘302 patent is currently being asserted against Kemp Technologies, Fortinet, Citrix, A10 Networks, and Fujitsu.

The contest will expire on November 16, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Express Mobile patent challenged

On September 25, 2020, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,594,168, owned and asserted by Express Mobile, Inc., a well-known NPE. The ’168 patent generally relates to website building software. Express Mobile has asserted this patent over 90 times in district court against companies employing both proprietary website-building platforms and open-source platforms like WordPress and Magento. Its numerous complaints have included assertions against companies large and small, including eGrove Systems and Shopify.

View district court litigations by Express Mobile. Read the request below. Unified is represented by Abed Balbaky and Scott McKeown from Ropes & Gray LLP and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jonathan Stroud, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,583, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

Express Mobile 7,594,168 ex parte request by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

Webinar Materials - The 5G Submarine and FRAND Patent Landscape

Speakers:

Craig Thompson – General Manager & COO, Unified Consulting

Francisco Sanchez – Vice President & Chief IP Counsel Intellectual Property, America Honda Motor Co.

Earl Nied – Program Director of Standards and IPR, Intel Corporation

During this webinar, we discussed the 5G patent landscape and ETSI declarations. Our discussions revolved around the interesting observations of the 5G landscape and highlighted why declarations are important to SEP licensing. We covered the latest development on FRAND jurisprudence and the ramifications of declared and undeclared patents.

Thank you to the panelists for covering a very innovative and interesting topic.

To listen to the recorded webinar, click here: https://vimeo.com/461573395

The slide presentation that went along with the webinar can be seen below.

Please join us at our next webinar, The Rise of Patent Litigation Financing: Data & Trends on October 29th at 12p EST. For more information, visit our website.

Unified Consulting 5G Webinar by Jennifer M Gallagher

Acacia patent determined to be likely invalid

On September 24, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 8,948,684, owned and asserted by Targeted Radio LLC, an Acacia Research Corporation affiliate and well-known NPE. The ’684 patent is generally directed to the insertion of advertising or other content into an Internet radio stream based on the user's location. This patent was asserted against Pandora Media but the case was terminated on July 8, 2020.

Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica Marks and Jung Hahm, in this proceeding. View Targeted Radio’s district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal.