Unified Patents Inc. v. Velos Media, LLC
Pending - Instituted- Docket:
- IPR2025-00038
Patents:8836842
Unified Patents Inc. filed an Inter Partes Review against Velos Media, LLC concerning patent 8836842 before the PTAB, which has been instituted.
Defendant
Velos Media, LLC
1 case as defendant.
Company profile
Velos Media, LLC is a private company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It operates as an independent licensing platform for patents related to video codecs, specifically High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265. Velos Media's platform offers a single license to device manufacturers for a portfolio of standard-essential HEVC patents contributed by technology innovators such as BlackBerry, Ericsson, Panasonic, Qualcomm, Sharp, and Sony. As of January 2025, Velos Media was acquired by TechStream (New York) and operates as an operating subsidiary. Velos Media has a small team of 2 employees.
The company's operations focus on facilitating access to essential video codec patents for the multimedia industry, aiming to streamline compliance and foster innovation in video technologies. Their patent portfolio includes global assets related to HEVC, which is a video compression technology designed for efficient delivery of high-quality video.
Velos Media's patent litigation posture indicates it is a non-practicing entity (NPE) asserting an acquired portfolio. While the provided case data shows only one instance of Velos Media as a defendant in a USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) case, external information confirms their role as a patent licensor and, at times, an asserter of patents. They have been involved in several inter partes review (IPR) proceedings at the PTAB, typically as the patent owner defending against challenges to the validity of their patents.
A notable case, Unified Patents Inc. v. Velos Media, LLC, IPR2019-00707, at the PTAB, resulted in all claims of Velos Media's U.S. Patent 9,979,981 being held unpatentable in 2020. This patent, originally assigned to Sony Corporation and transferred to Velos Media in 2017, related to techniques for image processing and encoding efficiency. In another instance, in 2025, an ex parte reexamination initiated by Unified Patents led to findings of substantial new questions of patentability for Velos Media's U.S. Patent 10,257,520, which is directed to video coding and decoding processes. Velos Media has also initiated litigation as a plaintiff, for example, filing suit against ByteDance (TikTok) in the Western District of Texas in 2025, asserting patents related to video coding. These asserted patents were originally developed at BlackBerry and Sharp.