Robocast patent challenged

On June 30, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,965,932, owned and asserted by Robocast Inc., an NPE. The ‘932 patent is generally directed to the automatic delivery and presentation of web content. It has been asserted against Netflix, YouTube, and Google.

View district court litigations by Robocast. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and David Seastruck.

Voice Tech's PTAB rehearing request denied

On June 28, 2022, Voice Tech Corporation’s request for rehearing of IPR2020-01018 was denied by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The IPR was filed against U.S. 10,491,679 on June 5, 2020, was instituted on December 14, 2020, and received a final written decision holding all claims invalid on December 13, 2021. The ’679 patent relates to voice-activated computing. The patent is currently asserted against Mycroft AI Inc. for using open source, voice-related technologies. This denial comes after the Board previously rejected Voice Tech's precedential opinion panel (POP) request.

View Voice Tech Corp’s district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen, Roshan Mansinghani, and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.

IP Investments Group entity DigiMedia Tech patent challenged

On June 27, 2022, Unified Patents filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 6,473,532, owned and asserted by DigiMedia Tech LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ‘532 patent relates generally to processing and encoding of video images for later compression by standard compression techniques. This patent has been asserted against ViacomCBS, Lenovo, and Panasonic.

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, Roshan Mansinghani and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

IP Edge entity Invincible IP patent challenged

On June 29, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,635,134, owned and asserted by Invincible IP LLC, an IP Edge entity. The ‘134 patent relates to virtual machine migration schemes in cloud computing environments and has been asserted against a variety of companies, including Citrix Systems, NetApp, HashiCorp, Rackspace Technology, and McAfee.

View district court litigations by Invincible IP. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Alyssa Holtslander.

$2,000 Awarded for Big Will Enterprises '951 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Vibhor Dimri, who was awarded a cash prize of $2,000 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 8,737,951. The patent is owned by Big Will Enterprises, Inc., an NPE. The patent generally relates to an interactive personal surveillance and security (IPSS) system for users carrying wireless communication devices. The patent has been asserted against Montblanc, Unaliwear, and Kronoz.

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.

WINNING SUBMISSION

• WO 2005017846A2

• US 20070174467A1