IP Edge entity Orbit Licensing patent challenged

On November 9, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination against U.S. Patent 9,578,040, owned and asserted by Orbit Licensing, an IP Edge entity. The '040 patent is generally directed to packet communications, including determining whether a service request is authorized or not. The '040 patent has been asserted 10 times, including against the SPF protocol (an open standard of the IETF) of several companies such as EidosMedia, Red Hat, OnApp, Akamai, Tencent, Limelight Networks, Wowza Media, CodePen, Velocix, and The MathWorks.

View district court litigation by Orbit Licensing. Unified is represented by James Stein of Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jung Hahm.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014897.

Endpoint IP entity Eighth Street patent invalidated in Reexam

On November 15, 2021, Eighth Street Solutions filed a supplemental reply cancelling all claims of U.S. Patent 7,664,924, after the USPTO (on Oct. 5, 2021), issued a final office action rejecting all claims of the ‘924 patent. Eighth Street Solutions, LLC is an Endpoint IP entity. The ’924 patent is related to securing a computer system by selectively controlling write access to a data storage medium. The '924 patent had been asserted against Sophos, Trend Micro, McAfee and Avast.

View district court litigations by Eighth Street Solutions. Unified was represented by Larissa Bifano and Jin Lee from DLA Piper and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014625.

SynKloud Technologies abandons own Federal Circuit appeal

On November 12, 2021, SynKloud Technologies filed a motion to dismiss its Federal Circuit appeal. Unified had won on all issues at the PTAB in IPR2019-01655, resulting in all claims of SynKloud’s U.S. Patent 9,098,526 being found unpatentable. SynKloud Technologies is a subsidiary of Ideahub, Inc. The ‘526 patent, directed to providing remote storage for wireless devices, had been asserted against Hewlett-Packard and Blu Products.

Unified was represented by John Baird, Paul Belnap, and Patrick McPherson of Duane Morris in this proceeding. View SynKloud's district court litigation. To view the case record, see Unified's Portal.

Dolby HEVC/AV1 patent challenged successfully in China

On November 11, 2021, the China National Intellectual Property Administration declared claims 1-4, 6-7, and 12 of CN1663258, owned by Dolby International AB, invalid. CN1663258 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, Ashraf Fawzy and Jung Hahm.

Another Sovereign Peak Ventures (Dominion Harbor entity) patent likely invalid

On November 9, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,877,038, owned by Sovereign Peak Ventures, a Dominion Harbor entity. The '038 patent is directed to transmitting and receiving video data arranged in data frames forming a data stream. It has been asserted against HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) technology from TCL, Hisense, and LG. The petition was filed as part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in the SEP Video Codec Zone.

View district court litigations by Sovereign Peak Ventures. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj of Haynes and Boone, LLP and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy, Jung Hahm, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.