On August 31, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed the PTAB’s ruling that all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,971,914, are unpatentable in a summary affirmance under Rule 36, effectively ending the longstanding assertion of those claims. 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. See Ortiz & Associates Consulting, LLC. v. Unified Patents, LLC, No. 2021-1085 (Fed. Cir. August 31, 2021) (Rule 36 Affirmance). The case was argued by in-house counsel Alyssa Holtslander and Angela Oliver from Haynes and Boone. Unified was also represented by in-house counsel Roshan Mansinghani and Jonathan Stroud as well as Raghav Bajaj, Debbie McComas, David O’Dell, and David McCombs at Haynes and Boone.

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