Competitive Access Systems multilink communications patent challenged

On March 1, 2023, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 10,868,908, owned by Competitive Access Systems, an NPE. The ’908 patent relates to multilink communications between a client and server and is currently being asserted against Oracle's Linux offering.

View district court litigations by Competitive Access Systems. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen, Ellyar Barazesh, and Roshan Mansinghani in this proceeding.

Velos Media video codec patent challenged

On February 28, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,497,469, owned and asserted by Velos Media, an NPE. The ‘469 patent relates to a device for indicating information about a leading picture for decoding images at a random access point.

Unified is represented by Drew Sommer of Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jessica L.A. Marks.

$2,000 for VideoLabs data transmission patent prior art

A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,266,682, owned by VideoLabs, Inc. The ‘682 patent generally relates to data from a transmitter that is extended to include authentication data on the application level by an application protocol. The authentication data is used by the receiver to determine whether the transmitter is known by the receiver. If the transmitter is known by the receiver, the data is accepted. If not, the data is rejected. The ‘682 patent has been asserted against Amazon, Facebook, and Instagram.

The contest will expire on May 15, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for IpIcontent voice recognition patent prior art

A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 11,416,668, owned by IpIcontent, LLC. The ‘668 patent generally relates to voice recognition with a limited dictionary.

The contest will expire on May 15, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Unified provides comments for USPTO Initiatives To Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights

Unified Patents provided comments to the USPTO's RFC on USPTO Initiatives To Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights and those were recently published. The comments largely support the USPTO's aims to bolster certain requirements during prosecution, such as requiring clearer written description support for claims and curtailing continuation abuse. The comments were provided by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jonathan Stroud.

Unified’s comment is available HERE.