Short Summary
Amazon has filed an IPR petition challenging Nokia’s 9,571,833 patent on HEVC motion‑vector prediction, arguing obviousness over Rusert/Zheng and Nakamura/WD4 and disputing the examiner’s allowance.
Detailed Summary
In Petition IPR2024-01505, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliate challenge Nokia Technologies Oy’s U.S. Patent No. 9,571,833, which claims improvements in de‑duplicating motion‑vector prediction candidates for HEVC video coding. The petitioner relies on two statutory grounds of obviousness under 35 U.S.C. §103, combining the Rusert and Zheng disclosures (Ground 1) and the Nakamura and WD4 disclosures (Ground 2). The petition argues that these references were not considered during prosecution, that the examiner’s allowance was erroneous, and that a denial would be improper under Sec. 314(a) and Sec. 325(d). No institution decision has been made yet.
Practitioner Note
This case demonstrates the evidentiary and procedural standards applied in patent matters before local courts. Understanding the court's reasoning in Amazon.com, Inc. et al. vs Nokia Technologies Oy is valuable context for structuring arguments or assessing risk in similar proceedings.
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