AlterWAN final decision affirmed by Federal Circuit

On November 14, 2022, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Office's final decision, in a summary Rule 36 affirmance, confirmed that AlterWAN, Inc.’s U.S. Patent 9,667,534 was unpatentable. The ‘534 patent, directed to routing packets via VPN, had been asserted in district court litigation against Amazon Web Services.

View AlterWAN's district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified was represented by Angela Oliver, Raghav Bajaj, and Debbie McComas of Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen, Ashraf Fawzy, and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

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Magnetar Capital entity, Speir Technologies, wireless device patent likely invalid

On November 9, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 7,321,777, owned and asserted by Speir Technologies Ltd., an NPE and Magnetar Capital entity. The ’777 patent relates to using a wireless device to locate a remote wireless device and has been asserted against Samsung and Apple.

View district court litigations by Speir Technologies. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Alyssa Holtslander and Roshan Mansinghani.

Two ETRI Chinese Video Codec patents held invalid

The China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) declared all claims of two patents owned by Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) invalid. The two patents, CN108124162B and CN108174219, are related to patents designated as essential in HEVC Advance Patent Pool and in SISVEL's AV1 and VP9 pools.

Unified was represented by Hank Shen and Yu Yan of Weichixue Law Firm, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Ashraf Fawzy.

SoundStreak Texas A/V recording patent challenged

On November 4, 2022, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,726,822, owned and asserted by SoundStreak Texas LLC, an NPE and entity of Quest Patent Research Corporation. The ’822 patent is directed to simultaneously establishing high- and low- quality data formats for streaming and storing digital content during a live event. The patent is currently being asserted against Fujifilm Holdings.

View district court litigations by SoundStreak Texas. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015153.

Flexiworld wireless communications patent likely invalid

On November 8, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 9,836,257, owned by Flexiworld Technologies, Inc., an NPE. The ’257 patent relates to transmitting digital content from a mobile apparatus to a wireless output device and has been asserted against Roku.

View district court litigations by Flexiworld. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani.