Magnetar entity Arigna patent likely invalid

On June 17, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 7,049,850, owned by Arigna Technology Limited, a Magnetar Capital subsidiary. Formerly owned by Mitsubishi Electric Corp., the ‘850 patent is generally related to a high voltage integrated circuit. The patent has been asserted against BMW, Honda, Nissan, GM, Volkswagen, Daimler, and Mercedes-Benz.

View district court litigations by Arigna Technology. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser of Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

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$2,000 awarded for Cascades Branding Innovation / N99 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, John Hocker, Ekta Aswal, and Vibhor Dimri, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions for 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.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

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Another Ideahub SEP video encoding patent challenged

On June 9, 2022, Unified filed a petition for post grant review (PGR) against U.S. Patent 11,122,274, owned by Ideahub Inc., an NPE.  The '274 patent generally relates to a video compression method for improving compression efficiency in directional intra-prediction. This filing is part of Unified’s continued efforts in the SEP Video Codec Zone.

Over the last 8 years, Unified is one of the top petitioners for inter partes review proceedings with over 240 petitions filed against bad NPE-controlled patents. This filing marks the second occasion that Unified has filed an early, post-grant review petition challenging a patent’s validity.

View district court litigation by Ideahub. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal.  Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj and David McCombs of Hayes Boone, and by in-house counsel Roshan Mansinghani and Michelle Aspen.

IP Edge entity Noblewood IP patent challenged

On June 13, 2022, Unified Patents filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,941,553, owned and asserted by Noblewood IP LLC, an IP Edge entity. The ’553 Patent relates to responding to user requests for multimedia content with a metafile. This patent has been asserted twelve times this year, including against Wolters Kluwer, Viacom, and Everyday Health.

View district court litigations by Noblewood IP. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj and David McCombs of Hayes Boone, and by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.