Ideahub patent challenged as likely invalid

On March 12, 2020, Unified filed a petition (with Haynes and Boone serving as lead counsel) for inter partes review (IPR) against US Patent 9,641,849, owned by Ideahub Inc. as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The '849 patent relates to a video compression technique known as intra prediction.

The '849 patent is a part of the HEVC Advance patent pool. HEVC Advance claims that certain claims of the '849 patent are essential to the HEVC standard. After conducting an independent analysis, Unified has determined that the '849 patent is likely unpatentable.

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 IPR2020-00702 on Unified’s Portal.