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On November 18, 2021, Unified Patents filed a Japanese opposition against JP6875333, owned by Dolby International AB. JP’333 has been designated essential to the HEVC Advance pool and SISVEL’s AV1 pool. It is also related to patents that have been designated in those pools.
Unified is represented by Yukihiro Takemoto of Ace-ai IP Law Firm in Japan, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.
On November 9, 2021, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination against U.S. Patent 9,578,040, owned and asserted by Orbit Licensing, an IP Edge entity. The '040 patent is generally directed to packet communications, including determining whether a service request is authorized or not. The '040 patent has been asserted 10 times, including against the SPF protocol (an open standard of the IETF) of several companies such as EidosMedia, Red Hat, OnApp, Akamai, Tencent, Limelight Networks, Wowza Media, CodePen, Velocix, and The MathWorks.
View district court litigation by Orbit Licensing. Unified is represented by James Stein of Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jung Hahm.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014897.
On November 15, 2021, Eighth Street Solutions filed a supplemental reply cancelling all claims of U.S. Patent 7,664,924, after the USPTO (on Oct. 5, 2021), issued a final office action rejecting all claims of the ‘924 patent. Eighth Street Solutions, LLC is an Endpoint IP entity. The ’924 patent is related to securing a computer system by selectively controlling write access to a data storage medium. The '924 patent had been asserted against Sophos, Trend Micro, McAfee and Avast.
View district court litigations by Eighth Street Solutions. Unified was represented by Larissa Bifano and Jin Lee from DLA Piper and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014625.
On November 12, 2021, SynKloud Technologies filed a motion to dismiss its Federal Circuit appeal. Unified had won on all issues at the PTAB in IPR2019-01655, resulting in all claims of SynKloud’s U.S. Patent 9,098,526 being found unpatentable. SynKloud Technologies is a subsidiary of Ideahub, Inc. The ‘526 patent, directed to providing remote storage for wireless devices, had been asserted against Hewlett-Packard and Blu Products.
Unified was represented by John Baird, Paul Belnap, and Patrick McPherson of Duane Morris in this proceeding. View SynKloud's district court litigation. To view the case record, see Unified's Portal.
On November 11, 2021, the China National Intellectual Property Administration declared claims 1-4, 6-7, and 12 of CN1663258, owned by Dolby International AB, invalid. CN1663258 has been designated essential to the HEVC Advance pool and SISVEL’s AV1 pool. It is also related to patents that have been designated in those pools.
Unified is represented by JZMC Patent and Trademark Law Office, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks, Ashraf Fawzy and Jung Hahm.
