Ideahub final decision affirmed by Federal Circuit

On February 10, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed the PTAB’s ruling that all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,641,849 are unpatentable. Owned by Ideahub Inc., the IPR was filed as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The '849 patent relates to a video compression technique known as intra prediction and Access Advance claims that certain claims of the '849 patent were essential to the HEVC standard.

This appeal comes from a Final Written Decision (IPR2020-00702) invalidating U.S. Patent 9,641,849 and denying a motion to amend the claims based on a lack of written description support. The decision is a nonprecedential written opinion.

Unified was represented by Angela Oliver, Raghav Bajaj, David McCombs, Jon Bowser, and Debbie McComas from Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani, Ashraf Fawzy, and Michelle Aspen, in these proceedings. Visit Unified’s Portal for more information about its Video Codec landscape (OPAL) and standard submission repository (OPEN).

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USPTO Commissioner for Patents, Vaishali Udupa, added as keynote speaker for April conference

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11th Annual Patent Administrative Law Conference

Tuesday, April 11 at 12p ET

American University (AU) Washington College of Law

Unified is happy to have newly appointed USPTO Commissioner for Patents, Vaishali Udupa, join as our featured keynote speaker in April at the 11th Annual Patent Administrative Law Conference in Washington, DC. As Commissioner for Patents, Ms. Udupa will manage and lead the Patents organization as its chief operating officer. She will oversee the agency’s commitment to fostering the U.S. innovation system by providing patent protections to inventors.

Along with our keynote, hear firsthand from IP thought leaders — Vishal Amin - Head of IP Policy at Intel, Raymond Gabriel - Senior IP Counsel at Ciena, and Timothy Jezek - Principal Legal Counsel at Samsung — among others on the latest strategy concepts in patent litigation funding and SEP patent pools. Registration is complimentary but space is limited and priority given to in-house counsel.

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Dynamic IP Deals entity MCOM IP financial services patent held invalid

On February 8, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. MCOM IP, LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,862,508 unpatentable. Owned and asserted by mCom IP, LLC, a Dynamic IP Deals entity, the '508 patent is directed to using e-banking touchpoints to provide personalized financial services. The patent had been asserted over 40 times against various banks and financial services companies, including Wells Fargo, US Bank, PNC, IBM, and NCR Corp.

View district court litigations by mCom. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by David Tennant and Jacob Rothenberg of Allen and Overy and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk, Ashraf Fawzy, and Jordan Rossen.

ETRI / KAIST video codec patent revoked by EPO

On February 6, 2023, the European Patent Office revoked all claims of EP 2627085. The EP ‘085 patent is owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). The patent is related to patents that are designated essential to the Access Advance patent pool as well as SISVEL’s AV1 patent pool.

Read the entire filing below. Unified is represented by Dr. Andrew McGettrick and Dr. Susan Keston at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

Bandspeed frequency-hopping patent challenged

On February 6, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,903,608, owned and asserted by Bandspeed, LLC, an NPE. The ‘608 patent is generally directed to communication devices for adaptive frequency-hopping based on channel performance. The patent has been asserted in over 20 litigations since 2014 but most recently against Renesas, Itron, Espressif Systems, TCL, ASUStek, and others.

View district court litigations by Bandspeed. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani.