Aprese '924 app management patent successfully challenged

On November 28, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of claims of U.S. Patent 9,207,924, owned by Aprese Systems Texas. The ‘924 patent relates generally to management of applications and/or services based on contextual information. It had been asserted against Toyota, Nissan, and Audi.

View district court litigations by Aprese. Unified was represented by Cono Carrano and Ryan Stronczer of Akin Gump and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Michelle Aspen.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014711.

Dolby Labs Access Advance patent challenged

On November 21, 2022, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 11,176,711 as part of its ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. Formerly owned by Intellectual Discovery Co. Ltd., the ‘711 patent is currently owned by Dolby Laboratories. The patent is a part of the Access Advance patent pool and Access Advance claims that certain claims of the '711 patent are essential to the HEVC standard.

Unified is represented by David Cavanaugh, Daniel Williams, and Jonathan Knight of WilmerHale and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding. Visit Unified’s 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 IPR2022-01508 on Unified’s Portal.

IP Edge sub, Orbit Licensing, communications patent successfully challenged

On November 18, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of claims 1, 4-6, and 9-11 of 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, Kelly Hughes and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014897.

IP Edge entity, Savannah Licensing, settles with Unified

On November 9, 2022, the Board issued an order terminating IPR2022-01026 pursuant to a joint settlement request filed by Unified Patents and Savannah Licensing, an NPE and IP Edge entity. U.S. Patent 9,454,777 relates to using feedback based on a user's indication of frustration with a device and had been asserted against Nuu Mobile, Atlassian, Snapchat, Instagram, Sony, and others.

View district court litigations by Savannah Licensing. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel Kelly Hughes, Roshan Mansinghani, and Michelle Aspen.

Dolby European AV1 patent related to Interdigital family revoked

On November 7, 2022, the European Patent Office revoked all claims of EP 3678097 owned by Dolby International AB. EP’097 is related to patents that have been declared essential to HEVCA and to SISVEL’s AV1 pool. InterDigital VC Holdings has designated its parent, EP 1627359, as essential to the AV1 standard. The EP’097 patent relates to a method for simulating the film grain that would result from the physical process of exposure and development of film in digital video. This filing was a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified is represented by Andrew McGettrick and Susan Keston from HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks, Ashraf Fawzy, and Roshan Mansinghani.

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