Dolby HEVC/AV1 patent affirmed invalid in China

On July 31, 2024, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court (BIPC) confirmed that all claims of Chinese patent CN102256122 were invalid. The CN’122 patent is owned by Dolby International. The claims were initially found invalid by the China National Intellectual Property Administration, but Dolby appealed to the BIPC. CN102256122 was purportedly essential or related to patents purportedly essential to the Access Advance patent pool and SISVEL’s AV1 and VP9 pools.

Unified was represented by Weichixue Law Firm for the appeal, and the case was managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks.

Fortress entity, Entropic, broadcast cable patent found invalid

On August 7, 2024, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) entered a final rejection of all the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,210,362, owned and asserted by Entropic Communications, an NPE and Fortress IP subsidiary. The ’362 patent generally relates to a wideband receiver that outputs a selected plurality of television channels to a demodulator. The patent was asserted against Cox, Comcast, and Charter Communications.

View district court litigations by Entropic Communications. Unified was represented by Raghav Bajaj and David McCombs of Hayes Boone, by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019255

Anonymous Media ad monitoring patent challenged

On August 8, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,756,622, owned by Anonymous Media Research Holdings, LLC. The ‘622 patent relates to media monitoring and measurement systems. The patent has been asserted against Samsung and Roku.

View district court litigations by Anonymous Media Research. Unified is represented by Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk.

$2,000 for Raymond Anthony Joao entity, Amadora Systems security patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on claims 41 and 48 of U.S. Patent 11,922,429, owned by Amadora Systems LLC, an NPE and entity of Raymond Anthony Joao. The ‘429 patent relates relates to a transaction security apparatus that transmits a notification message to a communication device associated with an account holder of the account. The central processing computer provides for a retrieval, by the user or the operator via the display, of the information regarding the transaction and the photograph or the video clip of the individual involved in the transaction. It has been asserted against JP Morgan Chase, Bank Ozk, Frost Bank, Austin Bancorp, Regions Financial, Texas National Bank of Jacksonville, Bank of Texas, VeraBank, Truist Bank, and Texas Bank & Trust.

The contest will expire on October 10, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Empire IP entity EMM Innovations multimedia patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on claim 1 of U.S. Patent 10,776,756, owned by EMM Innovations LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP LLC.. The ‘756 patent relates to assigning emotional selections to messages or multimedia objects on a network page. It has been asserted against Lark Technologies.

The contest will expire on October 10, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.