On November 21, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 11,176,711 as part of its ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. Formerly owned by Intellectual Discovery Co. Ltd., the ‘711 patent is currently owned by Dolby Laboratories. The patent is a part of the Access Advance patent pool and Access Advance claims that certain claims of the '711 patent are essential to the HEVC standard.

Unified is represented by David Cavanaugh, Daniel Williams, and Jonathan Knight of WilmerHale and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Michelle Aspen, 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 IPR2022-01508 on Unified’s Portal.