Valtrus Innovations patent challenged

On August 10, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,748,005, owned and asserted by Valtrus Innovations Ltd., an entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The ‘005 patent is generally related to allocating resources between several computing domains. It has been asserted against Google.

View district court litigations by Valtrus. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Michael Jones of Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.

$16,000 for Ideahub entity, AX Wireless, prior art

On August 12, 2022, Unified added 12 new PATROLL contests, with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by AX Wireless, LLC, an NPE and IdeaHub subsidiary. The contests will all end on October 31, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

We also have third-party prior art providers giving our researchers a head start in the hunt! Click on each of the contests to find more from APEX Standards, Techson IP, InQuartik, IPscreener, and Google Patent Analytics.

• US 9,584,262

• US 9,614,566

• US 9,973,361

• US 10,079,707

• US 10,291,449

• US 10,554,459

• US 10,917,272

• US 11,212,146

$3,000 for Health Tracker Systems prior art

On August 12, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 58 of U.S. Patent 6,582,380. The patent is owned by Health Tracker Systems, LLC, an NPE. The ‘380 patent generally relates to monitoring activity in individuals and providing feedback based on that activity through a device. The patent is currently being asserted against Polar Electro, Casio, Samsung, Fossil, and Michael Kors.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Prior Art Provider	Claim Chart Link
Apex Standards	Invalidity Report
Apex Standards	Claim Construction Report
Techson IP	Limestone|Report
InQuartik	Semantic Prior Art
Google	Similar Documents - Patents
Google	Similar Documents - NPL
IPscreener	Relevant Prior Art
Unified Portal	Relevant Prior Art

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.