New Speakers and Sponsors Announced for the Wiesn IP Forum 2022

We are happy to announce our latest speakers and sponsors for our much-anticipated Wiesn IP Forum 2022, in collaboration with Adamson & Partners. Along with speakers from Nokia, Siemens, CureVac, and more, this year’s Wiesn IP Forum is shaping up to be a great event!

Our first panel session discussing Patent Litigation in Europe – Impact of the UPC has added Adrian Eggen, Director of Patent Counsel for Philip Morris International.

John M. Baird, Partner at Duane Morris LLP, will be moderating our centerpiece panel, What’s UPComing? New Developments in the United Patent Court, which will offer essential insights on the Unified Patent Court. We also have Stefan Luginbühl, Head of European Legal Affairs at the EPO, joining on the panel.

Our final panel will discuss Standard Essential Patents and Patent Pools and will be led by Tim Pohlmann, CEO of IPLytics, and will bring Laurie Fitzgerald, Senior VP of Avanci, on to the panel.

Many thanks go out to our sponsors!

This FREE event will take place Monday 19th – Tuesday 20th September 2022 in Munich, and will bring together revered IP leaders to network and share the latest industry insights.

Seats are limited. For more information or to reserve your spot, please visit Wiesn IP Forum 2022 or email info@unifiedpatents.com. For sponsorship opportunities, please visit HERE.

We look forward to seeing you there!

ETRI patent challenged in the EPO

On August 8, 2022, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against EP 3767952, owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The EP’952 patent relates to an apparatus for encoding image data and an apparatus for decoding image data, where the encoding/decoding makes use of motion vector coding for image compression, particularly an inter prediction method.

EP’952 is related to patents that have been designated essential to HEVCA and has also been identified as potentially essential to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard.

Fill out the form below to read the entire filing. Unified is represented by Owain Staines at HGF Law and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ellyar Barazesh.

$1,500 awarded for Interface IP prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Vibhor Dimri and Preeti Dua, who split a cash prize of $1,500 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,500,201, owned by Interface IP Holdings, LLC, an NPE. The '201 patent generally relates to graphical input devices, and in particular, to input devices in which users select from a list of choices. It had been asserted against airline companies, along with banks such as JP Morgan and Bank of New York Mellon Corp.

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 2000057265

• US 4879648

• US 5708804

Fill out the form below to download the winning submission:

$3,000 for InnoMemory prior art

On July 30, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,057,960. The patent is owned by InnoMemory, LLC, an NPE. The ‘960 patent generally relates to power consumption in memory devices. It has been asserted against several financial institutions such as Wells Fargo, USAA, Frost Bank, PlainsCapital Bank, and others.

The contest will expire on October 1, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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IP Valuation entity Lupercal reexam granted

On July 27, 2022, less than two months 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 9,386,094, owned and asserted by Lupercal, LLC, an NPE and IP Valuation Partners entity. The '094 patent is generally directed to an image submission tool that can pre-process images prior to image upload based on pre-processing parameters received from a separate device and has previously been asserted against Ally Financial and BancorpSouth Bank.

View district court litigations by Lupercal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015043.