DigiMedia Tech patent held invalid

On May 16, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. DigiMedia Tech, LLC holding all of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,715,476 unpatentable. Formally owned by Intellectual Ventures but now owned by DigiMedia Tech LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity, the ‘476 patent is generally related to displaying video images generated by a camera on a display, and more particularly to tracking a head portion of a person image in camera-generated video images. The ‘476 patent has been asserted against Olympus Corp., Fujifilm Holdings, Sakar International, Nikon, JK Imaging, Elite Brands, Panasonic, and Lenovo.

View district court litigations by DigiMedia Tech. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Trenton Ward at Finnegan, and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

InterDigital AV1/VP9 patent opposed in Japan

On May 16, 2022, Unified Patents filed a Japanese opposition against JP6968024, currently assigned to InterDigital VC Holdings. The ‘024 patent is related to patents that have been designated as essential to SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools.

Unified is represented by Yukihiro Takemoto and Toshio Sakai of Ace-ai IP Law Firm in Japan, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Jung Hahm.

$4,000 for CPC Patent Technologies '208 & '705 prior art

On May 9, 2022, Unified Patents added two separate PATROLL contests with an opportunity to collect up to $4,000 in cash for prior art on at least claim 10 of U.S. Patent 9,269,208 and at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,665,705. The patents are owned by CPC Patent Technologies Pty., Ltd., an NPE and Charter Pacific Corp. entity. The '208 and ‘705 patents generally relate to systems using wireless transmission of security code information. They have both been asserted against Apple.

The contests will expire on August 31, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for CPC Patent Technologies '039 prior art

On May 9, 2022, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 13 of U.S. Patent 8,620,039, owned by CPC Patent Technologies Pty., Ltd., an NPE and Charter Pacific Corp. entity. The '039 patent is generally related to a biometric security card device. It has been asserted against Apple.

The contest will expire on August 31, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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World’s most comprehensive Opposition data now available

Unified Patents’ Portal now includes foreign opposition data with access to the dockets. At the current moment the data covers the United Kingdom, Germany, European Patent Office, and Japan. Specifically portal includes:

Users can now filter down by specific forum using the sidebar.

Once a given jurisdiction is selected, the Patent List will display all patents involved in an opposition in that jurisdiction.

From there, Users can select a given patent and view the docket with links to the actual documents.

Users will also have high-level analytics to understand the filings over time and top parties.