$2,000 awarded for NTECH multimedia patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Ritu Tyagi, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,215,261, owned by NTECH Properties, LLC, an NPE. The ‘261 patent generally relates to media delivery and programming and was asserted against ByteDance, Ltd.

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.

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Comments to the USPTO submitted regarding terminal disclaimer practice

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Through policy advocacy work with Unified Edge, Unified Patents has submitted comments to the USPTO's recent NPRM regarding conditions for obtaining terminal disclaimers to obviate obviousness-type double patenting.

In 2022, the USPTO requested comments regarding USPTO Initiatives to Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights. The Office has proposed a rule that would cut down on examiner wear-down and the abusive assertions of obvious variations of continuation patents through current terminal disclaimer practice. Unified has written to support the proposed rule.

Read through Unified’s comments by clicking on the button below:

$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.

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$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.

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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.