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On January 4, 2022, the China National Intellectual Property Administration declared all challenged claims of CN101491099, owned by Interdigital, invalid. CN101491099 has been designated as essential in the SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools.
Unified was represented by JZMC Patent and Trademark Law Office, and the case was managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ashraf Fawzy.
Interdigital CN'099 invalid by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd
On February 24, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,079,752, owned by NPE and IP Edge entity, Diatek Licensing LLC. The ‘752 patent is generally directed to providing playback control functions (e.g., fast-forward, rewind, etc.) for digital video streaming devices. The patent is relevant to the MPEG standard and has been asserted against several streaming companies such as AccuWeather, Fox Broadcasting Company, Home Box Office (HBO), MLB Advanced Media, Redbox, and Roku.
View district court litigations by Diatek Licensing. To read this petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Cono Carrano, Ryan Stronczer, and Sohrab Hajarian of Akin Gump, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Jordan Rossen.
Unified’s PATROLL, the only Crowd Sourced Prior Art platform, currently has 65 active contests with over $130,000 in cash prize payouts. In addition, 22 contests are in the final review process and winners will be announced soon. With 1,454 total submissions, PATROLL has seen tremendous success in deterring low quality patents.
The increase in submissions has led to more successful contest winners. Since 2020, 50 submissions have been announced as the winner, versus only 16 in 2018 and 2019 combined. In that same time frame, nearly $100,000 in prizes have been awarded versus only $37,000 in 2018 and 2019.
| Awarded | Winners |
|---|---|
| $130,975 | 66 |
Beginning in 2020, Unified partnered with several third-party prior art research firms - Amplified, APEX STANDARDS, Techson IP, Traindex, IPscreener, Ambercite, and InQuartik. These partnerships led to more submissions being made by outside prior art researchers and scientists. With more submissions, more money was awarded and we continued the fight against the low-quality patents.
As seen below, the Average Submissions Per Contest Per Year increased by nearly 12% from 9.3 submissions in 2020 to now 10.5 in 2022.
Unified received a record-high of 425 total submissions for 2021.
With 22 contests being finalized and 65 in progress, the total payout for 2022 is expected to be nearly $200,000 with over 500 submissions projected. To view all active contests, please visit PATROLL.
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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 7,768,395. The patent is owned by N99 LLC, an NPE. The '395 patent generally relates to brand mapping. The patent is currently being asserted against Aldi.
The contest will expire on May 31, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On February 10, 2022, three months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of 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.
