On June 9, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,867,854, owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The ‘854 patent is part of the HEVC Advance Patent Pool, as well as SISVEL's AV1 and VP9 patent pools. Raghav Bajaj, from Haynes and Boone, is lead counsel.

Visit Unified’s Public 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 IPR2020-01048 on the Portal.