On July 20, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. WSOU Investments holding all of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,179,960 unpatentable. Owned by WSOU Investments, LLC, the filing was a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The ‘960 patent was formerly owned by Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (Nokia Corporation) and has been asserted against ZTE. WSOU Investments, LLC is run by Craig Etchegoyen, formerly of Uniloc.

Unified was represented by Jon Bowser, Raghav Bajaj, and Angela Oliver from Haynes and Boone 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 petition and review the case record, view IPR2021-00378 on Unified’s Portal.