$2,000 for DatRec prior art

On February 4, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,156,158. The patent is owned by DatRec, LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of Nacar IP LLC. The '158 patent generally relates to the use of a database of individuals in personalized medicine based on authenticated medical and other personal data. It is currently being asserted against companies like Athenahealth, Philips, AdvancedMD, and Ancestry.com. View district court litigation by DatRec, LLC.

The contest will expire on May 15, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Another Chinese patent challenged, this time against GEVC

On February 4, 2021, Unified Patents filed its second Chinese invalidity challenge against CN102939755. The CN’755 patent, originally assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, was transferred to GE Video Compression (GEVC). The CN‘755 patent is related to patents that are designated essential to the HEVC Advance patent pool as well as SISVEL’s AV1 and VP9 patent pools.

Unified is represented by Fanghua Zhou at Wei Chixue Law Firm, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ashraf Fawzy.

For Pub - Against CN102939755B by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

Webinar Materials - The Trial Before the Trial — Eliminating Presumptions and Other Recent USPTO Rule Changes

Speakers:

David Seastrunk — Senior Patent Counsel - Unified Patents

Dan Fishman — Senior Attorney, Yee & Associates, P.C.

We reviewed the new USPTO-issued revised rules that officially went into effect on January 9, 2021. Controversial changes that eliminate evidentiary presumptions in favor of the Petitioner for purposes of institution on certain fact issues were discussed. We looked over the rule changes and how they have affected both Petitioners and Patent Owners.

Thank you to our speakers for leading a great discussion!

To listen to the recorded webinar, click here: https://vimeo.com/508182874

The slide presentation from this webinar can be seen below.

Please join us at our next webinar, 5G RAN Economics and Licensing on February 25th at 12p ET. For more information, visit our website.

USPTO Rule Changes - Unified Webinar by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

First China patent challenge against IdeaHub

On February 3, 2021, Unified Patents filed its first Chinese invalidation request for CN103081504 owned by IdeaHub, Inc. CN103081504 is directed to media content streamed in accordance with the MPEG-DASH standard and to video-on-demand (VOD) systems. It is related to U.S. Patent 8,645,562, which IdeaHub's licensee, Helios Streaming, LLC, has used to sue Showtime, Vudu, Crackle, and Starz.

Unified is represented by Fanghua Zhou at Wei Chixue Law Firm, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ashraf Fawzy.

For Pub - As-filed Invalidation Request-201180042908.3 by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

$1,000 for Optinetix prior art

On February 2, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $1,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,349,668. This patent is currently owned by Optinetix, a NPE. The '668 patent generally relates to a system and method for the distribution of information, typically digital information that is distributed actively, through broadcast media such as television and radio.

The contest will expire on April 30, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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