On August 20, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Ortiz & Associates Consulting, LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,971,914 unpatentable. The ‘914 patent, directed to controlling a multimedia video device to play video data through the operation of a wireless device, has been asserted against Google and Roku.

Unified was represented by Jon Bowser, David O’Dell, David McCombs, and Thomas Kelton at Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jonathan Stroud, in this proceeding. View Ortiz & Associates' district court litigation here. To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified's Portal.