Causam Enterprises power management patent held invalid

On July 18, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Causam Enterprises Inc. holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,396,592 unpatentable. The ‘592 patent is owned by Causam Enterprises, Inc., an NPE. The ’592 patent relates to active load management systems and has been asserted in district court and the ITC against Ecobee, Resideo, Alarm.com, Xylem, and Itron.

View district court litigations by Causam Enterprises. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen, Michelle Aspen, and Ashraf Fawzy.

Vision Works IP automotive patent challenged

On July 14, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,437,935, owned and asserted by Vision Works IP Corp., an NPE. The ’935 patent generally relates to a vehicle monitoring system for turning off an idling engine. The ’935 patent is currently being asserted against Nissan and was previously asserted against Mercedes-Benz USA.

View district court litigations by Vision Works IP. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj and David McCombs of Hayes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Ashraf Fawzy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015258

$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Gametronics, signal control 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 8,614,667, owned by Gametronics, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The ‘667 patent generally relates to an ergonomic apparatus for generating data signals that may be indicative of alphanumeric characters for use with an electronic device or system such as a computer or electric typewriter. The patent has been asserted against Nintendo, Sony, and 8Bitdo Technology.

The contest will expire on September 30, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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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.