Unified files IPR against US 9,338,449 owned by Velos Media, LLC

On November 7, 2018, Unified filed a petition (with Wilmer Hale serving as lead counsel) for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,338,449, owned by Velos Media, LLC (Velos) as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its new SEP Video Codec Zone.

The ‘449 patent and its corresponding extended patent family is the third-largest family known to be owned by Velos and represents approximately 5.9% of Velos’s total known assets.  Velos claims to have and seeks to license patents allegedly essential to the HEVC / H.265 standard. The ’449 patent, originally assigned to Qualcomm, was transferred to Velos Media in 2017. Declarations likely related to the ‘449 patent are available here via OPEN—Unified’s free, fully-searchable standard submission repository.  After conducting an independent analysis, Unified has determined that the ‘449 patent is likely unpatentable.

Visit Unified’s Public Portal for more information about its Video Codec landscape (OPAL) and standard submission repository (OPEN). To read the petition and review the case record, view IPR2019-00194 on the Portal.