GEVC video codec Japanese patent opposition successful

On March 30, 2023, the Japanese Patent Office found that the original claims of JP6909818 were obvious in view of the known art. The JP '818 patent is owned by GE Video Compression LLC (GEVC). The JP '818 patent is related to patents that have been designated as essential to the Access Advance patent pool and SISVEL’s AV1 and VP9 pools.

Unified was represented by Yukihiro Takemoto and Toshio Sakai of Ace-ai IP Law Firm in Japan, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica L.A. Marks.

KAIST & ETRI AV1/HEVC Japanese patent opposition successful

On March 14, 2022, the Japanese Patent Office found that the original claims of JP6855419 were obvious in view of the known art. The JP '419 is owned by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The JP‘419 patent is related to patents that have been designated essential in both the Access Advance and AV1 pools.

Unified was represented by Yukihiro Takemoto and Toshio Sakai of Ace-ai IP Law Firm in Japan, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica L.A. Marks.

InterDigital AV1/VP9 Japanese patent opposition successful

On August 4, 2022, the Japanese Patent Office found that the only claim of JP6968024 was obvious and also not novel in view of the known art. The JP '024 patent is owned by InterDigital VC Holdings. The ‘024 patent is related to patents that have been designated as essential to SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools.

Unified is represented by Yukihiro Takemoto and Toshio Sakai of Ace-ai IP Law Firm in Japan, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica L.A. Marks.

Ask Sydney image search patent challenged

On July 7, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,474,705, owned and asserted by Ask Sydney, LLC, an NPE. The ‘705 patent relates to analyzing tags associated with a sequence of images presented to a user to guide a user to a current interest. The patent has been asserted against Google, Amazon.com Services, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, and Snap.

View district court litigations by Ask Sydney. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj of Hayes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rosen and Ellyar Barazesh, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015256