Dolby Loses in Appeal to Force Disclosure of Tech Group Members

The Federal Circuit dismissed for lack of standing a patent owner’s appeal of an administrative tribunal’s decision not to probe a prolific patent challenger’s ties to Big Tech.

Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. “has failed to establish an injury in fact sufficient to confer” standing under the US Constitution concluded, Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore in a precedential opinion issued Thursday by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Unified Patents LLC, an organization whose members include some of the world’s biggest tech and car companies, challenged as obvious a Dolby patent at the Patent Trial and Appeals Board. ...