On December 30, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Contemporary Display LLC holding all challenged original claims of U.S. Patent 8,863,219 unpatentable. The PTAB also denied Contemporary Display’s motion to amend, finding proposed substitute claims 15 and 16 unpatentable.

The ‘219 patent is owned by Contemporary Display, LLC, an IP Valuation Partners entity and well-known NPE. The patent is directed to the well-known method of a television and its on-screen display menu, and had previously been asserted against various television manufacturers and service providers including LG and Cox.

Unified was represented by David Tennant and Ryuk Park at White & Case, and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding. View Contemporary Display's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified's Portal.