On March 17, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 10,326,987, owned by DivX, LLC, an affiliate of SoftBank Group Corp. This filing is part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The '987 patent was asserted against Hulu and is directed to encoding alternative streams of video for use in adaptive bitrate streaming.

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 IPR2021-01476 on Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj, David McCombs, and Jon Bowser of Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.