Canon and Unified Brands Announce Total Success in Suit Against Over 50 Foreign Counterfeiters

Unified Brands, in partnership with Canon, is pleased to report the conclusion of another successful trademark infringement action against over 50 online counterfeiters.  

After filing suit on April 12, 2022 to deter foreign counterfeiters, the Court concluded the case in a default order in favor of Canon. The default judgment order awarded damages to Canon for the improper sale of counterfeit goods infringing Canon's intellectual property.

Unified Brands partners with companies that respect the intellectual property of other companies and individuals and remains committed to pursuing legal enforcement against those who do not respect the intellectual property of Unified Brands’ partners.  This is just the most recent effort against infringers in Unified’s ongoing efforts to deter counterfeit product sales.

Read the complaint and decision below.

Dominion Harbor entity, Sovereign Peak Ventures, patent held invalid

On October 3, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Sovereign Peak Ventures, LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,042,457 unpatentable. Owned by Sovereign Peak Ventures, a Dominion Harbor entity, the ’457 patent relates to video processing and has been asserted against LG, TCL, Hisense, ASUSTek, and HP.

View district court litigations by Sovereign Peak Ventures. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen, Ashraf Fawzy, and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Roku and Unified Brands file third lawsuit against over 250 foreign online counterfeiters

Unified Brands announces that it has, in partnership with Roku, filed a third District Court trademark infringement action against over 250 online counterfeiters on March 16, 2022 to enjoin and stop the sales of counterfeit goods on online marketplaces. Sales of counterfeit goods is a huge and growing problem for American businesses. As stores have migrated from physical locations to e-commerce sites – a move accelerated by the pandemic – online sales of counterfeit goods has become a multi-trillion dollar problem for American businesses.

Working with Unified Brands on regular enforcement activity ensures that counterfeiters now know selling fake Roku remotes will lead to substantial monetary losses, not just losing a listing. This is the third filing against infringers in Unified’s ongoing efforts to deter counterfeit product sales.

$2,000 for IP Edge sub, Bassfield IP, prior art

On October 6, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 6,641,053, owned and asserted by Bassfield IP, an NPE and entity of IP Edge. The ‘053 patent generally relates to an image processing apparatus for encoding and decoding a document containing machine-readable code overlaid by human-readable content. It has been asserted against several such as PayPal, Target, Applebees, and Starbucks.

The contest will expire on December 16, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for Datamonitor Systems prior art

On October 6, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on U.S. Patent 7,594,009, owned and asserted by Datamonitor Systems LLC, an NPE. The ‘009 patent generally relates to a system for analyzing network traffic, particularly to detect suspect packets and identify attacks or potential attacks. It is currently being asserted against IBM.

The contest will expire on December 16, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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