EPO Opposition filed against Dolby patent

On August 6, 2021, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against EP 3678097 B1, currently owned by Dolby International AB. EP ‘097 is related to patents owned by InterDigital and designated essential to SISVEL’s AV1 patent pool. EP ‘097 is also related to patents designated essential in the HEVC Advance list. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified is represented by Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ashraf Fawzy.

EPO challenge filed against another ETRI patent

On July 27, 2021, Unified Patents filed an opposition in the EPO against EP 3448036. The EP ‘036 patent is owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The patent is part of a large family with related patents designated as essential to the H.265 and AV1 standards by HEVC Advance and SISVEL, respectively. It is also related to U.S. Patent 9,781,448 against which Unified has filed an IPR in April 2021.

Read the entire filing below. Unified is represented by HGF Law and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jessica L.A. Marks.

O319360EP Grounds of Opposition by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

WSOU '770 patent challenged

On July 2, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,333,770, formerly owned by Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation) but now owned by WSOU Investments, LLC. The ‘770 patent is generally related to broadcasting data in a telecommunications system and is being asserted against TP-Link Technology Co.

View district court litigations by WSOU Investments. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Drew Sommer at Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Alyssa Holtslander.

$10,000 for prior art on all 5 patents asserted by Invincible IP, an IP Edge entity

On August 2, 2021, Unified Patents added five new PATROLL contests, with a combined prize winnings of $10,000 (each at $2,000), seeking prior art on all asserted patents by IP Edge entity, Invincible IP:

• U.S. Patent 8,938,634 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘634 patent relates to power savings in a datacenter. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, Nutanix, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 8,954,993 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘993 patent relates to locally processing queue requests. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 9,479,472 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘472 patent relates to locally processing queue requests. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 9,635,134 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘134 patent relates to cloud computing resource management. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, Nutanix, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 9,678,774 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘774 patent relates to secure migration of virtual machines. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, Nutanix, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

All contests will end on October 31, 2021. Please contact info@unifiedpatents.com for any questions.

CommWorks Solutions patent challenged

On July 30, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,923,846, owned by CommWorks Solutions, LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of IP Investments Group LLC. The ‘846 patent relates to the recovery of information in a mobile communications network. It has been asserted against Comcast Cable Communications.

View district court litigations by CommWorks Solutions. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen and Ashraf Fawzy.