Jeffrey M. Gross entity Compression Vectors reexamination granted

On May 16, 2022, just one month 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 6,731,813. The patent is owned and asserted by Compression Vectors LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The '813 patent relates to adjusting frame intervals during compression of a video signal and was previously asserted against Axis Communications AB, Cisco, Hanwha Corp., and Intel. This filing is part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

View district court litigation by Compression Vectors. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jung Hahm and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015000.

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.

CONTESTS

• US 9,269,208

• US 9,665,705

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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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