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On March 19, 2021, Unified Patents filed a Chinese invalidation request for CN103238328B owned by Velos Media. CN103238328B is related to U.S. Patent 8,768,077, and its extended patent family is the largest family known to be owned by Velos.
Unified is represented by JZMC Patent and Trademark Law Office, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ashraf Fawzy.
On March 19, 2021, Unified Patents filed a Chinese invalidation request for CN1312936C owned by IP Bridge. CN1312936C has been designated as essential in the SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools and as essential to HEVC Advance. The patent is part of a large family of patents with several members designated as essential to those pools as well.
Unified is represented by JZMC Patent and Trademark Law Office, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ashraf Fawzy.
On March 24, 2021, the USPTO granted Unified's request for ex parte reexamination, finding substantial questions of patentability for the challenged claim of U.S. Patent 10,005,427, owned and asserted by Inspire Licensing, an NPE and affiliate of IP Edge. The ’427 patent is related to sensors that generate alarms for a vehicle.
View district court litigations by Inspire Licensing. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj of Haynes Boone and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.
To view any documents for this reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,665, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.
Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winning submission for U.S. Patent 9,355,412. The patent is owned by Sanderling Management Ltd., an NPE., and relates to forwarding a processing function, such as an overlay, to a user's mobile image processing application when the user's mobile device indicates a certain GPS reading. The ‘412 patent is currently being asserted against Snap, Inc.
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.
On March 23, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,862,508. The ‘508 patent is currently owned by mCom IP, LLC, a Texas entity associated with patent monetization firm Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP).
The '508 patent generally relates to a system and method for delivering a retail banking multi-channel solution that unifies interactive electronic banking touch points to provide personalized financial services to customers and a common point of control for financial institutions is provided. It is currently being asserted against major US banks in the Western District of Texas, including PNC, US Bank, BBVA USA Bancshares, DH Corporation, CSI, Inc..
The contest will expire on July 1, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
| Prior Art Provider | Claim Chart Link |
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| Apex Standards | Pseudo Claim Charting |
| Techson IP | Limestone|Report |
| Amplified | Invalidity Report |
| Traindex | Prior Art Report |
| InQuartik | Semantic Prior Art |
