2023 Corporate IP Strategy Conference was a success!

The 2023 Corporate IP Strategy Conference (CIPSC) was attended by over 200 IP professionals, attorneys, and consultants with several presentations and discussions on the most thought-provoking IP issues of our current times. Find the presentations below over Brattle Groups recently concluded Wi-Fi 6 expert economic report, the meteoric rise of litigation finance and exotic insurance products, Portal updates, and slides regarding international patent strategy topics.

• Wi-Fi Economic Report

  • Presented by Craig Thompson & Samuel Baird

• The Rapid Rise of Patent Litigation Finance and Judgment Insurance

  • Presented by Jonathan Stroud

• New Tools for Patent Strategy

  • Presented by Shawn Ambwani

• Panel 3 - International Patent Strategy

  • Moderator: Dr. Andrew McGettrick Speakers: Dr. Jason Hannon, Ken Korea, Keith Newburry, & Samuel Baird

Our next event will be the 12th Annual Patent Administrative Law Conference (PALC) on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Washington, DC. We will have more information soon!

IPVal patent asserted against dozens of retailers challenged

On November 10, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,643,875, owned by eCeipt, LLC, an NPE and IPValuation Partners entity.  The ‘875 patent relates to sending electronic receipts to a customer. It has been asserted against 24 retailers including a pending assertion against Advanced Auto Parts.

View district court litigations by eCeipt. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and T.J. Murphy.

NexGen semiconductor controller patent reexam granted

On November 14, 2023, less than four weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding a substantial new question of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,278,855 owned and asserted by NexGen Control Systems, LLC, an NPE. The '855 patent generally relates to control systems for electric motors. The patent is currently asserted against Infineon and NXP.

View district court litigations by NexGen. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Ashraf Fawzy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019288

Two Chinese ETRI video codec patents held invalid

The Beijing Intellectual Property Court found all claims of two Chinese patents, CN103384333B and CN104219523B, invalid after the patent owner, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), filed an appeal. The CN’333 and CN’523 patents are related to patents that are designated essential to the Access Advance (formerly known as HEVC Advance) patent pool as well as SISVEL’s AV1 and VP9 patent pools.

Unified is represented by Tao Chen, Yu Yan, and Peter Zhang at Wei Chixue Law Firm, and the case is managed by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and Roshan Mansinghani.

Stasit smartphone patent challenged

On November 10, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,855,723, owned and asserted by Stasit, LLC, an NPE. The ‘723 patent is directed to smartphones that can mask notifications of incoming calls and text messages for certain unauthorized numbers during certain times and only logging a record of those temporally unauthorized communications on a password protected log, while allowing incoming communications from authorized numbers to be handled normally (regular notification and logging on the general log). It has been asserted against Apple, Meta Platforms, Google, LG, Samsung, and HTC.

View district court litigations by Stasit. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks and T.J. Murphy.