Jeffrey M. Gross entity Hyperquery patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 9,529,918, owned by Hyperquery, LLC, an NPE and Jeffery M. Gross entity. The ‘918 patent generally relates to a method and system for downloading at least one application via a communication network. It has been asserted against LG, Samsung, and HP.

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Optis Wireless 4G/LTE patent reexam granted

On April 13, 2023, six weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,137,830, owned and asserted by Optis Wireless Technology, LLC, an NPE and Brevet Capital entity. The ‘830 patent is generally directed to reducing collision while reporting control information in radio communications between a mobile station (i.e., any user equipment capable of performing radio transmission) and a base station. This filing is a part of Unified’s 3GPP Zone.

View district court litigations by Optis Wireless. Unified is represented by David Tennant of Allen & Overy and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015203

ETRI/HBNU video codec patent likely invalid

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.

Entangled Media file sharing patent challenged

On April 17, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,484,260, owned by Entangled Media LLC. The patent relates to operating on files located on multiple devices using a singular file system and is being asserted against Dropbox.

View district court litigations by Entangled Media. Unified is represented by Drew Sommer and Wen Xue from Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and T.J. Murphy.

IP Bridge video codec patent invalidity confirmed by PTAB in ex parte appeal

On March 31, 2023, the PTAB confirmed the examiner’s rejection of all claims in the ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 7,515,635, owned by IP Bridge. The patent is claimed to be essential as part of the Access Advance patent pool, as well as SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 patent pools. This was an appellate decision by the PTAB agreeing that all claims are unpatentable.

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 for the reexamination proceedings, visit https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014645.

Visit Unified’s Portal for more information about its Video Codec landscape (OPAL) and standard submission repository (OPEN).