World's Largest Wi-Fi 6 Training Set Used in First Ever AI-derived Landscape

Unified's OPAL (Objective PAtent Landscape) report was designed to address asymmetries in the licensing of standard essential patents and to create a more fair and transparent patent licensing process around core patents supporting next waves of consumer technology growth.

According to OPEN, Unified Patents’ IEEE standards submissions database, over 7,182 technical contributions have been submitted. These top 10 contributors account for 27% of all technical contributions.

The Wi-Fi 6 “OPAL” tool objectively scores the statistical essentiality of patent publications to Wi-Fi 6 functionality. It was created using a machine learning algorithm trained on a large set of expert reviewed Wi-Fi 6 patents. A short summary of OPAL’s methodology follows:

• Universe of Patents Subject to Analysis - 3.6M+ applications and granted patents potentially relevant to Wi-Fi 6

• Patents Evaluated Manually by Experts - 3,000+ unique families evaluated manually by technical experts at Scintillation Research

• AI Training - Patents were vectorized using FastText, and a binary classification algorithm was trained to predict essentiality to the universe of patents

• ML Performance - Training complied with accepted machine learning practices and the results achieved a high F-1 score of 0.99

Read more about Wi-Fi 6 OPAL’s report and methodology HERE. If you have any questions, please contact info@unifiedpatents.com.

Flexiworld '114 patent successfully challenged

On May 23, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of claims 8-14 of U.S. Patent 10,346,114, owned by Flexiworld Technologies, Inc. The ‘114 patent relates to transmitting or streaming protected digital content to client devices over the internet. It has been asserted against Roku.

View district court litigations by Flexiworld. Unified is represented by Wilson Sonsini and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified’s Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014721.

CommWorks reexamination granted

On July 1, 2022, less than 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 7,760,664, owned by CommWorks Solutions, LLC. The patent relates to determining and provisioning paths in a network and has been asserted against eight companies, including RCN Telecom Services, LLC and Charter Communications.

View district court litigations by CommWorks. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj, Matthew Beck, and David McCombs of Hayes Boone, and by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015057.

Dolby HEVC patent challenged in the EPO

On July 5, 2022, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against EP 3694209 B1, currently owned by Dolby International AB. EP ‘209 generally relates to video coding techniques that use data hiding to decrease bandwidth. The patent is related to others that have been designated essential to the Access Advance (HEVC) pool. EP ’209 has also been identified as potentially essential to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified is represented by Dr. Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ellyar Barazesh.

IP Investments Group entity DataCloud patent held invalid

On June 30, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Datacloud Technologies, LLC holding all of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,560,613 unpatentable. Owned by DataCloud Technologies, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity, the ‘613 patent relates generally to disambiguating file types on a computer system. The patent has been asserted against several companies broadly based on the use of the Linux kernel KVM and QEMU modules as well as cloud services and networking products, including Box, Extreme Networks, F5 Networks, 1&1 Ionos, Wix.com, Squarespace, and Charter Communications. This filing was a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in the Open Source zone.

View district court litigations by DataCloud Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Drew Sommer and Kyle Chen of Greenberg Traurig, and by in-house counsel, Jung Hahm, Roshan Mansinghani, and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.