Unified Loses Challenge To Video Patent But Avoids Naming Members

Unified Patents LLC lost its challenge to a patent essential to a video coding standard, although a patent review board said it didn’t have to decide whether Unified members should have been named as interested parties.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said Unified hadn’t shown the disputed claim in U.S. Patent No. 8,867,854 is invalid. The patent, covering a video compression technique, is owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and other Korean research groups.

The patent owners argued Unified should have to name two of its members as real parties-in-interest (RPIs) in the proceeding. The PTAB refused ...