$14,000 for SoftBank entity, Entropic Communications, prior art

Unified added 7 new PATROLL contests, with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Entropic Communications, an NPE and SoftBank subsidiary. The contests will all end on May 15, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

We also have third-party prior art providers giving our researchers a head start in the hunt! Click on each of the contests to find more from APEX Standards, Techson IP, IPscreener, and Google Patent Analytics.

US 7,295,518 - Broadband Network for Coaxial Cable Using Multi-carrier Modulation (litigations)

US 7,889,759 - Broadband Cable Network Utilizing Common Bit-loading (litigations)

US 8,284,690 - Receiver Determined Probe

US 8,363,681 - Using Ranging Measurements in a Multimedia Home Network

US 9,838,213 - Parameterized Quality of Service Architecture in a Network

US 10,257,566 - Broadband Local Area Network

US 11,399,206 - Receiving a Television Signal

$4,000 for Fractus antennas patent prior art

Two new PATROLL contests have been added, with a $2,000 cash prize for each, seeking prior art on claim 31 of U.S. Patent 8,456,365 and claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,674,887. The patents are owned by Fractus, SA, an NPE, and have been asserted against ADT. The contests will end on May 31, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

U.S. Patent 8,456,365 - Multi-band Monopole Antenna

U.S. Patent 8,674,887 - Multi-band Monopole Antenna

Prior Art Provider	Claim Chart Link for ‘365	Claim Chart Link for ‘887
Apex Standards	Claim Report	Claim Report
Techson IP	Limestone|Report	Limestone|Report
IPscreener	Relevant Prior Art	Relevant Prior Art
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Unified Portal	Relevant Prior Art	Relevant Prior Art

Virtual Creative Artist media content patent likely invalid

On March 22, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 10,339,576, owned and asserted by Virtual Creative Artist, LLC. The '576 patent is directed towards a process for creating and publishing media content on an electronic exchange. Virtual Creative Artist had asserted the patent against Meta and has asserted two family member patents against Twitter and Google.

View district court litigations by Virtual Creative Artist. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Eric Buresh of Erise IP and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Jeffrey M. Gross entity Compression Vectors video codec patent successfully challenged

On February 21, 2023, the USPTO issued a final rejection of all challenged claims at issue of U.S. Patent 6,731,813. The patent is owned and asserted by Compression Vectors LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The '813 patent relates to adjusting frame intervals during compression of a video signal and was previously asserted against Axis Communications AB, Cisco, Hanwha Corp., and Intel. This filing is part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The decision came down less than a year after it was filed.

View district court litigation by Compression Vectors. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Michelle Aspen.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015000.

Wi-Fi 6 improvements resulting in more litigation

In the first article of a two-part series posted on IPWatchdog, Samuel Baird, Director of Analytics at Unified Patents, and Craig Thompson, GM/COO for Unified Consulting, recently used OPEN’s IEEE and OPAL’s Wi-Fi 6 landscape to understand how 3GPP technologies have migrated in Wi-Fi 6. With these core technologies now embedded with Wi-Fi 6, this creates an SEP monetization target, which ultimately leads to more litigation. In addition, the recent changes to the IEEE’s IPR rules introduce more uncertainty about what is permitted to be used in assessing a RAND rate and remove some of the restrictions on licensors seeking injunctions. With more companies invested into Wi-Fi 6 and the rule change that has created uncertainty, this will only lead to more litigation.

In Part II, the research will look at how the IEEE’s recent IPR rule changes will affect the trends and technologies detailed in the first post.

Click HERE to read the entire article.