On April 19, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an PGR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 11,212,553, owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and Hanbat National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation. The ‘553 patent is directed to decoding methods and apparatuses that use intra-prediction to reconstruct an image. The ‘553 patent is a recently issued patent that has been identified as potentially essential to the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard.

To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj, Jonathan Bowser, Destiny Stephenson, and Angela Oliver of Hayes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.