$1,000 awarded for inventor-owned, Jaffe '828, image patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal, Mani Manikandan, and Ritu Tyagi, who split an award of $1,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 6,757,828, owned by inventor, Jonathan E. Jaffe. The ‘828 patent relates to an improved method and system for authenticating images captured by digital cameras. The patent has been asserted against Adobe and TruePic.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

$1,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity Malikie Innovations video encoding patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Dinesh Swami, Ramesh Varadharaj, and Gaurav Dhawan, who split an award of $1,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,179,147, owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The ‘147 patent relates to the use of soft decisions and iterative coding in Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and H.264 compliant video encoding. The patent has been asserted against ASUSTeK and Acer.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

GEVC AV1 patent challenged

On July 3, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,574,982, owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The ‘982 patent generally relates to encoding and decoding video images using wedgelet, or binary mask, patterns. This patent has been designated essential to SISVEL’s AV1 pool, and the filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified is represented by Chris Schmidt at Erise IP, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen.

OptiMorphix MPEG-DASH/H.264 patent challenge instituted

On July 3, 2024, five weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination on the fourth OptiMorphix owned patent, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,987,285. The ‘285 patent is generally directed to adaptive bitrate media streaming (e.g., by privileging audio or video bitrate, or in response to current network conditions). It is asserted against products associated with H.264/AVC for video, AAC for audio, and products that use MPEG-DASH from Microsoft, Cisco, Amazon, and Google.

View district court litigations by OptiMorphix. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and T.J. Murphy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019523.

Inflated patent damages settled in Delaware courts attract bad actors

Delaware Online has published an article written by Jonathan Stroud, General Counsel at Unified Patents, over an influx of cash into intellectual property lawsuits. Non-practicing entities, also known as “patent trolls”, and their investors are incentivized to demand massive sums, and their shell company arrangements shield them from negative consequences. These high-stakes wagers create a vicious cycle that subverts our justice system and wreaks havoc on innovators.

To read the full article, click HERE.