Better Browsing web browser patent affirmed invalid in ex parte appeal

On January 28, 2025, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) affirmed the Examiner’s final rejection of all claims of U.S. Patent 8,838,736, owned and asserted by Better Browsing LLC. The '736 patent relates generally to a zoom feature for an internet browser and had been asserted against Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, Opera Norway AS, Toshiba, Acer, Razer, and ASUSTeK.

View district court litigations by Better Browsing. Unified was represented by Chris Coulson at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90020154.

IP Bridge HEVC/AV1 patent invalidity confirmed by Fed. Circuit

On December 3, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed the PTAB’s ruling that all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,515,635 are unpatentable under Rule 36. The patent is owned by Godo Kaisha IP Bridge. The patent was claimed to be essential as part of the Access Advance patent pool, as well as SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 patent pools.

Unified was represented by Theodoros Konstantakopoulos of Desmarais LLP and in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view any documents of the reexamination proceedings, visit Unified’s portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014645

Voice Tech open source patent affirmed invalid by Federal Circuit

On August 1, 2024, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Office's final decision confirming that all claims (1-8) of U.S. Patent 10,491,679 were unpatentable. Owned and asserted by Voice Tech Corp, the ’679 patent relates to voice-activated computing. The patent was asserted against Linux-based technology from Mycroft AI for using open source, voice-related features. This invalid patent has been blamed for the closure of Mycroft AI.

View district court litigation by Voice Tech Corp. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen, Roshan Mansinghani, and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding. Adam Erickson from Haynes and Boone handled the argument on appeal.

NPRM comments submitted regarding discretionary denials and serial/parallel petitions

As part of the advocacy work of Unified Edge, Unified Patents has submitted comments to the PTAB's recent NPRM advocating against the codification of rules regarding discretionary denials under § 325(d) and for serial/parallel petitions.

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AiPi entity Pedersen message distribution patent found invalid

On May 10, 2024, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Peter Henrik Pedersen holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,965,920 unpatentable. Owned and asserted by Peter Henrik Pedersen, believed to be associated with AiPi Solutions, the '920 patent is generally directed to the specification and management of how messages are distributed to recipients. The ’920 patent is currently asserted against Zoho Corp., Ziff Davis, Intuit, Salesforce, Blackbaud, Constant Contact, Monday.com, Zendesk, and Aurea Software. It was previously asserted against Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Adobe, Wix.com, and others.

View district court litigations by Pedersen. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Jon Bowser, Angela Oliver, Michael McCarty, and Matt Beck (now at Unified Patents) of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.