Opposition

GEVC HEVC patent revoked in EPO

On November 28, 2023, the European Patent Office announced the revocation of all claims of EP 2805491, owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The ‘491 patent is generally directed to video coding using parallel processing. It is related to patents that have been declared essential to Access Advance patent pool. This filing was a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified was represented by Harry Hutchinson and Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

GEVC video codec Japanese patent opposition successful

On March 30, 2023, the Japanese Patent Office found that the original claims of JP6909818 were obvious in view of the known art. The JP '818 patent is owned by GE Video Compression LLC (GEVC). The JP '818 patent is related to patents that have been designated as essential to the Access Advance patent pool and SISVEL’s AV1 and VP9 pools.

Unified was represented by Yukihiro Takemoto and Toshio Sakai of Ace-ai IP Law Firm in Japan, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica L.A. Marks.

KAIST & ETRI AV1/HEVC Japanese patent opposition successful

On March 14, 2022, the Japanese Patent Office found that the original claims of JP6855419 were obvious in view of the known art. The JP '419 is owned by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The JP‘419 patent is related to patents that have been designated essential in both the Access Advance and AV1 pools.

Unified was represented by Yukihiro Takemoto and Toshio Sakai of Ace-ai IP Law Firm in Japan, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica L.A. Marks.

InterDigital AV1/VP9 Japanese patent opposition successful

On August 4, 2022, the Japanese Patent Office found that the only claim of JP6968024 was obvious and also not novel in view of the known art. The JP '024 patent is owned by InterDigital VC Holdings. The ‘024 patent is related to patents that have been designated as essential to SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools.

Unified is represented by Yukihiro Takemoto and Toshio Sakai of Ace-ai IP Law Firm in Japan, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica L.A. Marks.