On September 14, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) holding all claims of US Patent 9,838,720 unpatentable. The ‘720 patent is owned by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), which have participated in the HEVC Advance and MPEG-LA patent pools. Unified filed this challenge as part of its ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified was represented by Cono Carrano and Clark Gordon from Akin Gump, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding. Visit Unified’s Portal for more information about its Video Codec landscape (OPAL) and standard submission repository (OPEN). To read the decision and review the proceeding, view IPR2019-00725 on the Portal.