High Court Rejects Dolby Labs Push to Protect Challenged Patent

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to take up a Dolby Laboratories Inc. unit’s challenge to an administrative ruling the company contends unfairly leaves one of its patents in legal jeopardy.

Unified Patents LLC, a corporate membership group set up to deter the assertion of weak patents, unsuccessfully challenged the validity of a Dolby video encoding and decoding patent before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Unified Patents said it was the only company that was a “real party in interest” in the case as that term is defined in the America Invents Act, omitting any mention of any of ...