Sound View '860 patent successfully invalidated

On September 16, 2022, the USPTO issued a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate, canceling claims 1-3, 5, 7, 8, 10, and 18 of U.S. Patent 8,135,860, owned by Sound View Innovations, LLC. The ‘860 patent relates to data processing that transforms web content into a format suitable for display by a client device and was previously asserted against Facebook.

View district court litigations by Sound View. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Ellyar Barazesh, Ashraf Fawzy, and Jessica L.A. Marks.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014713.

IP Edge entity, Diatek Licensing, patent likely invalid

On September 15, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 7,079,752, owned by NPE and IP Edge entity, Diatek Licensing LLC. The ‘752 patent is generally directed to providing playback control functions (e.g., fast-forward, rewind, etc.) for digital video streaming devices. The patent is relevant to the MPEG standard and has been asserted against several streaming companies such as AccuWeather, Fox Broadcasting Company, Home Box Office (HBO), MLB Advanced Media, Redbox, and Roku.

View district court litigations by Diatek Licensing. To read this petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Cono Carrano, Ryan Stronczer, and Sohrab Hajarian of Akin Gump, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Jordan Rossen.

$2,000 awarded for Linfo IP '132 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Ganesan Rajamanickam, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 9,674,132, owned by Linfo IP LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of Dynamic IP Deals, LLC. The '132 patent generally relates to a user interface for managing emails and other message communications and are disclosed as solutions for reducing confusion and avoiding mistakes in communications when replying to a message with multiple recipients.

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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GEVC EPO patent challenged

On August 30, 2022, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against EP 3343781 B1, owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The patent relates to context-adaptive binary entropy coding of video data. The EP‘781 patent is related to patents that have been deemed essential to HEVCA. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

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

$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Healthness, prior art

On September 7, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on U.S. Patent 6,696,957, owned by Healthness, LLC, an NPE and Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The ‘957 patent generally relates a system and method for remotely ascertaining movement or non-movement of an individual in order to determine a possible emergency condition. The patent is being asserted against Oura, Adidas, Under Armour, and Garmin.

The contest will expire on November 30, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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