IP Investments Group entity DigiMedia Tech video compression patent likely invalid

On January 19, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 6,473,532, owned and asserted by DigiMedia Tech LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ‘532 patent relates generally to processing and encoding of video images for later compression by standard compression techniques. This patent has been asserted against ViacomCBS, Lenovo, and Panasonic.

View district court litigations by DigiMedia Tech. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Trenton Ward at Finnegan, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Fortress/SoftBank entity DivX video codec patent held invalid

On January 20, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. DivX, LLC holding all challenge claims of U.S. Patent 10,326,987 unpatentable. Owned by DivX, LLC, an affiliate of SoftBank Group Corp, this filing is part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The '987 patent was asserted against Hulu and is directed to encoding alternative streams of video for use in adaptive bitrate streaming.

View district court litigations by DivX and 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 IPR2021-01476 on Unified’s Portal.

Unified was represented by Eugene Goryunov of Haynes and Boone arguing for Unified under the Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP) developed by the USPTO. Mr. Goryunov was assisted by Raghav Bajaj, David McCombs, and Jon Bowser of Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

2BCom Bluetooth connections patent held invalid on rehearing

On January 10, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) reversed an earlier judgement and found all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,127,210, owned by 2BCom, LLC, unpatentable. The ’210 patent is generally directed to management of Bluetooth connections and was asserted against BMW, TP-Link, FCA, Amazon, KIA Motors, Logitech, and Walmart.

The Board agreed on rehearing that the evidence as a whole establishes that non-patent references used in Unified's challenge qualify as prior art printed publications. This included a paper that was published by the IEEE and a Bluetooth standards document. Upon determining that the references qualify as printed publications, the Board found that the challenged claims were unpatentable. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. See also 2BCom’s district court litigation. Unified was represented by Jon Bowser and Angela Oliver of Haynes and Boone, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

Dolby video codec patent revoked by EPO

On January 13, 2023, the European Patent Office revoked all claims of EP 2 659 675 B1, owned by Dolby International AB. The patent is related to patents that are designated essential to SISVEL’s AV1 patent pool and Access Advance patent pool. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Read the revocation below. Unified is represented by Andrew McGettrick and Dr. Susan Keston at HGF Law, and by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen.

EP 2 659 675 B1 Revocation by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

PacSec3 firewall patent cancelled

On January 10, 2023, the USPTO issued a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate, canceling claims 1, 3, and 6 of U.S. Patent 7,047,564, owned by PacSec3, an NPE represented by Bill Ramey. PacSec3 was formed in 2020 with NACAR IP LLC as its managing member. NACAR IP was also formed in early 2020 with Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), a patent monetization company, identified as its managing member. The ‘564 patent had been asserted against F5 Networks, NetScout Systems, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee, Cisco, Juniper Networks, and Watchguard Technologies.

View district court litigation by PacSec3. Unified was represented by Jon Bowser, Raghav Bajaj, and Angela Oliver of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jordan Rossen.