On December 31, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,736,484, owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The ‘484 patent is part of the HEVC Advance Patent Pool, as well as SISVEL's AV1 and VP9 patent pools.

Unified is represented by Drew Sommer of Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and 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 petition and review the case record, view IPR2021-00368 on the Portal.