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On August 30, 2022, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against EP 3343781 B1, owned by GE Video Compression, LLC. The patent relates to context-adaptive binary entropy coding of video data. The EP‘781 patent is related to patents that have been deemed essential to HEVCA. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.
Unified is represented by Andrew McGettrick at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Jessica L.A. Marks.
On September 2, 2022, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 6,917,876, owned by Route Guidance Systems LLC, an NPE. The ’876 patent is directed to route guidance systems for vehicles where the calculated route is transmitted from a central computer to a vehicle over a channel of communication in a short burst and is then closed, so that transmission to the vehicle ceases, unless and until a need for further transmission arises. The patent is currently being asserted against ExxonMobil, Verizon, MyPizza Technologies, Honda, Salesforce, Grubhub, HERE Global, DoorDash, MapleBear, and Waitr.
View district court litigations by Route Guidance Systems. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes, Michelle Aspen, and Roshan Mansinghani.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015113.
On August 26, 2022, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,229,409, owned by Silent Communication, LLC, an NPE and DynaIP entity. The ’409 patent relates to recovering calls after an erroneous disconnection and has been asserted against Adobe, Fuze, and Lifesize.
View district court litigations by Silent Communication. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.
To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015109.
On September 2, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 10,728,382, owned and asserted by Backertop Licensing LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Edge. The '382 patent is directed to securing and providing mobile device access to a network based on a determined location of the mobile device and whether the mobile device complies with restrictions required by the particular location. The patent is currently being asserted against August Home and Canary Connect.
View district court litigations by Backertop Licensing. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.
On August 29, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 7,156,318, owned and asserted by Rosen Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of IP Valuation Partners. The ‘318 patent is directed to a programmable thermostat having virtual buttons that control space conditioning equipment. The patent is currently being asserted against Resideo Technologies and Lennox International.
View district court litigations by Rosen Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Ellyar Barazesh and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.
