On January 20, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. DivX, LLC holding all challenge claims of U.S. Patent 10,326,987 unpatentable. 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.

View district court litigations by DivX and 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 was represented by Eugene Goryunov of Haynes and Boone arguing for Unified under the Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP) developed by the USPTO. Mr. Goryunov was assisted by Raghav Bajaj, David McCombs, and Jon Bowser of Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.