$4,000 awarded for Adeia Technologies mixed media patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Adeia Technologies Inc, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various mixed media technologies. They have been asserted against Disney.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

US 8542705 - Identifying Key Frames within Multiple Media Streams

Winners - Ekta Aswal & Ujjwal Kumar Jha

Winning Submission: US 20060080724; US 20060200576

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US 9762639 - Dynamic Chunk Manipulation for Streaming Mixed Media

Winners - Ekta Aswal & Tanya Chauhan

Winning Submissions: US 9438861; US 20110072075; US 20080133766; CN 100581111-C

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$4,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Key Patent Innovations. The patents generally relate to various video streaming and media delivery technologies.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

US 8378862 - Efficient Data Compression

Winner - Ekta Aswal

Winning Submission: US 7265692

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US 9497290 - Adaptive HTTP Streaming

Winner - Nikko Quevada

Winning Submissions: US 8677005; US 20110096828

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DynaIP entity, WirelessWerx IP, geotracking patent confirmed invalid by PTAB

On November 24, 2025, the PTAB confirmed the final rejection of all challenged claims in the ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 7,317,927, owned by WirelessWerx IP LLC, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals LLC entity. The '927 patent relates to location tracking and has been asserted in over 60 litigations against companies like Apple, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, MapleBear, FedEx, DHL Express, and Life360. The PTAB panel affirmed the rejections and refuted all of patent owner's points in their response.

View district court litigations by WirelessWerx. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015235

Ideahub (former ETRI) HEVC patent revocation confirmed by EPO appeal

On November 6, 2025, the EPO Board of Appeals confirmed the complete revocation of all claims of EP 3402195. The EP ‘195 patent is currently owned by Ideahub Inc. but was previously owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The EP ‘195 patent involves improving the efficiency of encoding and decoding methods with particular reference to determining quantization parameters for encoding and decoding object blocks such that the quantization parameters are adaptively set according to prevailing or neighboring conditions. It is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance and SISVEL’s AV1 patent pool.

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.

SVV Technology display patent challenge instituted

On November 12, 2025, after Unified filed ex parte reexaminations on two SVV patents, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,740,397, owned and asserted by SVV Technology Innovations, Inc. The '397 patent generally relates to a light distribution system for display devices, more specifically drawn to a light guide member including a corrugated surface with transparent optical windows. The patent is currently asserted against Acer and ASUSTek accusing a large number of their products containing displays (i.e., laptops, tablets), and was previously asserted against Samsung and Micro-Star.

View district court litigations by SVV Technology Innovations. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Andrea Shoffstall, in these proceedings.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015526