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On June 9, 2021, Unified Patents filed a Chinese invalidation request for CN102256122 owned by Dolby International AB. CN102256122 has been designated essential to the HEVC Advance pool and SISVEL’s AV1 pool. It is also related to patents that have been designated in those pools.
Unified is represented by JZMC Patent and Trademark Law Office, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Jung Hahm.
On June 3, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination against U.S. Patent 8,719,165, owned by Xylon Licensing, LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The ‘165 patent relates to completing secure transactions using a mobile device and a secure computer. It has been asserted in 13 district court litigations against companies such as Plains Capital, Texas State Bankshares, Mastercard, Shopkeep, Global Payments, and others.
View district court litigation involving the '165 patent. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,764, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.
On June 8, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $1,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,886,421. The patent is currently owned by Modern Font Applications, LLC, an NPE. The '421 patent generally relates to allowing operating systems access to non-standard fonts in a network document. It is has been used in over 15 district court cases but currently being asserted against Red Lobster and Alaska Airlines.
The contest will expire on September 30, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On June 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 10,990,265. The patent in question is owned by Rathod Yogesh, an inventor who has sent demand letters to various Progressive Web Technology (PWA) developers. An example letter can be found here: https://firt.dev/pwa-patent/
In previous efforts, he attempted to assert various patents against companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, AOL, Facebook, Twitter, Nokia, Foursquare, IBM, LinkedIn, MySpace, RIM, Quora, Salesforce, Twitpic, Ubermedia, and iOS and Mac software developer, The Iconfactory. The '265 patent generally relates to mini apps and progressive web technology (PWA) architecture and app page processing core technology.
The contest will expire on October 1, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On May 28, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 6,115,174, owned by Optic153 LLC, an Equitable IP entity. The '174 patent is generally related to devices that vary optical signals and has been previously asserted against Comcast, Verizon, T-Mobile, Windstream Holdings, Dish Network, Charter Communications, Crown Castle International Corp., and AT&T.
View district court litigations by Optic153 LLC. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Ellyar Barazesh and Roshan Mansinghani.
