On December 30, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,179,960 as part of its ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. Formerly owned by Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation), the ‘960 patent is currently owned by WSOU Investments, LLC and has been asserted against ZTE. WSOU Investments, LLC is run by Craig Etchegoyen, formerly of Uniloc.

Unified is represented by Jon Bowser from Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jung Hahm, in this proceeding. Visit Unified’s Portal for more information about its Video Codec landscape (OPAL) and standard submission repository (OPEN). To read the petition and review the case record, view IPR2021-00378 on Unified’s Portal.