Prior art found on Heritage IP patent

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 6,854,067, owned by Heritage IP, LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of IP Edge. The '067 patent generally relates to a method and system for interaction between a processor and a power on reset circuit to dynamically control power states in a microcontroller. This patent has been asserted in district court against NXP, Resideo Technologies, Maytronics, Insulet Corp., August Home, and others.

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.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

• US 5754436

• US 5745375

• US 6144569

• WO 2001023977

Heritage IP PATROLL Winner by Jennifer M Gallagher

$2,000 for Phoji prior art

On October 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 9,565,149. The patent is owned by Phoji, Inc. The '149 relates to including customized emojis with a messaging system and is currently being asserted against Atlassian and Slack.

The contest will expire on December 31, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Another ETRI AV1/HEVC patent held invalid in China

On October 8, 2021, the China National Intellectual Property Administration declared all claims of CN104219523B invalid. The patent is owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The CN’523 patent is related to patents that are designated essential to the Access Advance (formerly known as HEVC Advance) patent pool as well as SISVEL’s AV1 and VP9 patent pools. It is also related to U.S. Patent 8,867,854, which Unified challenged in IPR2020-01048.

Unified is represented by Tao Chen at Wei Chixue Law Firm, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

Decision of Request for Invalidation-201410432281.8-2012051lp by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

ETRI AV1/HEVC patent held invalid in China

On October 8, 2021, the China National Intellectual Property Administration declared all claims of CN103384333B invalid. The patent is owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The CN’333 patent is related to patents that are designated essential to the Access Advance (formerly known as HEVC Advance) patent pool as well as SISVEL’s AV1 and VP9 patent pools. It is also related to U.S. Patent 8,867,854, which Unified challenged in IPR2020-01048.

Unified is represented by Tao Chen at Wei Chixue Law Firm, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

Decision of Request for Invalidation-201310301386.5-2012050lp by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

Jeffrey M. Gross entity Netcom Global Solutions' patent challenged

On October 8, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,316,128, owned and asserted by Netcom Global Solutions LLC, a Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The '128 patent is generally directed to a firewall that can enforce communication management and filtering policies using the identities of the sender and receiver of the communication. It has been asserted against Microsoft and Cisco.

View district court litigations by Netcom Global. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani.