2BCom Bluetooth connections patent held invalid on rehearing

On January 10, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) reversed an earlier judgement and found all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,127,210, owned by 2BCom, LLC, unpatentable. The ’210 patent is generally directed to management of Bluetooth connections and was asserted against BMW, TP-Link, FCA, Amazon, KIA Motors, Logitech, and Walmart.

The Board agreed on rehearing that the evidence as a whole establishes that non-patent references used in Unified's challenge qualify as prior art printed publications. This included a paper that was published by the IEEE and a Bluetooth standards document. Upon determining that the references qualify as printed publications, the Board found that the challenged claims were unpatentable. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. See also 2BCom’s district court litigation. Unified was represented by Jon Bowser and Angela Oliver of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

Dolby video codec patent revoked by EPO

On January 13, 2023, the European Patent Office revoked all claims of EP 2 659 675 B1, owned by Dolby International AB. The patent is related to patents that are designated essential to SISVEL’s AV1 patent pool and Access Advance patent pool. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Read the revocation below. Unified is represented by Andrew McGettrick and Dr. Susan Keston at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen.

EP 2 659 675 B1 Revocation by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

$2,000 for Quest Patent Research entity Taasera Licensing cognitive behavior recognition patent prior art

A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 13 of U.S. Patent 8,850,517, owned by Taasera Licensing LLC, an NPE and Quest Patent Research Corp subsidiary. The patent relates to cognitive behavior recognition, specifically assessing the runtime risk of an application or device in a computer system using cognitive behavior recognition. The ‘517 patent has been asserted against Trend Micro, Palo Alto Networks, and Crowdstrike.

The contest will expire on February 28, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for OHVA transactions patent prior art

A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 3 of U.S. Patent 9,679,286, owned by OHVA, Inc., an NPE. The patent generally relates to electronic transactions carried out over a network connection and pertains particularly to methods and apparatus for ensuring identity security for the transaction parties. The ‘286 patent has been asserted against several companies like Shopify, Payzer, Magtek, Fiserv, and others.

The contest will expire on February 28, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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PacSec3 firewall patent cancelled

On January 10, 2023, the USPTO issued a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate, canceling claims 1, 3, and 6 of U.S. Patent 7,047,564, owned by PacSec3, an NPE represented by Bill Ramey. PacSec3 was formed in 2020 with NACAR IP LLC as its managing member. NACAR IP was also formed in early 2020 with Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), a patent monetization company, identified as its managing member. The ‘564 patent had been asserted against F5 Networks, NetScout Systems, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee, Cisco, Juniper Networks, and Watchguard Technologies.

View district court litigation by PacSec3. Unified was represented by Jon Bowser, Raghav Bajaj, and Angela Oliver of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jordan Rossen.