Identifying good patents is tough. Figuring out who drafts the best applications is even harder. Unified’s Portal offers a fast approach in looking at patent prosecution success by analyzing law firms, examiners, and art units. Our current set of data consists of over 3,100 law firms in their respective art units, covers over 3 million office actions dating back to 2008, and analyzes over 1.7 million patents. Members can now compare outcomes between law firms, visualize examiner track records, or find the most prosecuted and/or successful art units in a given technology. Watch a quick video to find out more:
Unified Brands and Rowan TELS Change the Game for Counterfeiters
The two companies are changing the playing field for counterfeiters by announcing the world’s first free, real-time counterfeit marketplace report & deterrence solution.
Marketplace counterfeiting continues to increase exponentially as analysts estimate 25% of all marketplace listings are fake. Unauthorized products hurt legitimate sales and can create life threatening safety issues. Some estimate fake products damage the world economy by over $1 trillion dollars. Even with these significant dangers, legitimate Brands struggle to understand the size of their problem and once they do, they continue to spend significant time and money to stop counterfeiters which often changes nothing in the end. However, now there is a better option at a zero-cost for Brands that truly changes the game.
Unified Brands, an affiliate of Unified Patents, and Rowan TELS Corp. can provide the first real-time report for anyone to analyze a Brand’s risk among counterfeit products and services. This partnership is powered by Rowan’s advanced marketplace technology and available now HERE. You can quickly research how much money counterfeiters are making off your Brand and how much you might make by stopping them.
Brands can now deter marketplace counterfeiters without spending a dime or wasting any amount of time. Unified Brands' solution uses search technologies and legal tools to deter counterfeiters by going after counterfeiters’ money and giving it to the rightful owners - the Brand owner. Never lose money to counterfeiters again and end the constant cycle once and for all.
An explainer video can be found here: www.unifiedbrands.us
Together, these solutions will change the game for Brands. Never pay. Never sacrifice your revenue and your time to stop counterfeiting. Save employee time, decrease support issues, and most important - protect your Brand. True deterrence is now available from the Anti-Counterfeiter, Unified Brands, and even better, it’s always free.
Flexiworld patent challenged
On April 8, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,836,257, owned by Flexiworld Technologies, Inc., an NPE. The ’257 patent relates to transmitting digital content from a mobile apparatus to a wireless output device and has been asserted against Roku.
View district court litigations by Flexiworld. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani.
Aeritas patent successfully challenged
On April 4, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of all challenged claims at issue of U.S. Patent 9,390,435, owned by Aeritas LLC, an NPE. This rejection comes less than a year after Unified filed the request for ex parte reexamination in May 2021. The ‘435 patent relates to receiving notifications related to products or services of interest, at a mobile device based on the location of the mobile device and notification criteria, and then receiving additional information about the products or services or a purchase confirmation, at the mobile device in response to an input. The patent has been asserted in 21 litigations, including current assertions against Finnair Oyi and WestJet Airlines.
View district court litigations by Aeritas. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Alyssa Holtslander, Michelle Aspen, and Jung Hahm. To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified’s Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014750.
Velos EP patent successfully challenged
On February 8, 2022, all of the original claims of EP 3 113 493 B1, owned by Velos Media, LLC, were found unpatentable. The ‘493 patent is generally related to decoding image data to generate quantized transform coefficients using certain sized matrices. This was one of Unified’s first filings in the EPO and was a part of its ongoing efforts in the SEP Video Codec Zone.
Read the entire filing below. Unified is represented by Dr. Simon Q. Lud, European Patent Attorney at Maiwald Intellectual Property, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica L.A. Marks.