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On April 13, 2021, Unified Patents filed two challenges in Japan against patents owned by Mitsubishi, JP6768017 and JP6768110. The two patents have been designated as essential in the SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools.
Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks, Jung Hahm, and Ashraf Fawzy.
On April 13, 2021, Unified Patents filed a Chinese invalidation request for CN100581260 owned by IP Bridge. CN100581260 has been designated as essential in the SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools. It is related to patents that have been designated as essential to HEVC Advance as well.
Unified is represented by JZMC Patent and Trademark Law Office, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ashraf Fawzy.
On April 13, 2021, the Board granted Pebble Tide's request for adverse judgment against itself and terminated PGR2020-00011, Unified Patents, LLC v. Pebble Tide LLC. After Unified filed the PGR petition, the claims in the challenged patent, U.S. Patent 10,303,411, were judged by the district court to be invalid and while Pebble Tide appealed the district court's decision, the Federal Circuit dismissed the appeal with prejudice. The Board instituted Unified's PGR in July 2020, before the Federal Circuit’s dismissal, and Pebble Tide attempted to file amended claims more than two months after the Federal Circuit's dismissal. However, Pebble Tide now agrees that its motion to amend is moot and requested adverse judgment.
The ‘411 patent had been asserted against over 25 companies, involving remote monitoring camera systems, mobile banking apps, online photo-sharing services, and auto insurance claims submission apps. All of the district court litigations have been terminated and the challenged patent is now owned by FlexiJet Technologies, Inc.
Unified is one of the top petitioners for inter partes review proceedings with over 200 petitions filed against bad NPE-controlled patents. This filing was the first occasion that Unified filed an early, post-grant review petition challenging a patent’s validity.
View Pebble Tide's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jung Hahm and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.
On March 31, 2021, the Federal Circuit granted a motion to dismiss Uniloc 2017's appeal in Case No. 21-1644 (see below). The appeal stemmed from IPR2019-01126, in which Unified received a final written decision finding all of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,519,005 unpatentable under two independent grounds. The patent relates to a method for motion estimation for a digital video encoder.
The '005 patent has been asserted against a large number of defendants, including Netflix, Google, Sling, Verizon, AT&T, ABC, Vudu, Roku, Brightcove, Telestream, Hulu, Bitmovin, Dailymotion, ESPN, and Amazon.com.
Unified was represented by Scott McKeown and Victor Cheung at Ropes and Gray, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding. View Uniloc's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the entire case proceeding, see Unified's Portal.
On March 25, 2021, Unified Patents filed a Chinese invalidation request for CN101491099 owned by Interdigital. CN101491099 has been designated as essential in the SISVEL’s VP9 and AV1 pools.
Unified is represented by JZMC Patent and Trademark Law Office, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ashraf Fawzy.
