The detailed information for PTAB case with proceeding number IPR2022-01544 filed by Sony Group Corporation (Japan) et al. against MZ Audio Sciences, LLC on Sep 23, 2022. This includes filing dates, application numbers, tech centers, patent numbers, and current case status.

Case Details

Proceeding Number
IPR2022-01544
Filing Date
Sep 23, 2022
Petitioner
Sony Group Corporation (Japan) et al.
Respondent
MZ Audio Sciences, LLC
Status
Final Written Decision
Respondent Application Number
10870685
Respondent Tech Center
2600
Respondent Patent Number
7289961
Institution Decision Date
Apr 21, 2023
Termination Date
Apr 8, 2024

Proceeding Documents

The table below shows documents filed in the case, listing each document name, filing date, document type, and filing party. Tracking these filings indicates the activity of the parties involved in the case, and the types of documents filed can provide insights into the legal strategies being employed.


Document NameFiling DateCategoryFiling Party

Alert me when new update on this case

Final Written Decision: original

Apr 8, 2024PAPERBOARD

Other: Hearing transcript

Mar 8, 2024PAPERBOARD

Petitioner's Oral Argument Demonstratives

Jan 22, 2024PAPERPETITIONER

Patent Owner's Demonstratives

Jan 22, 2024PAPERPATENT OWNER

EXPUNGED

Jan 3, 2024PAPERBOARD

Order: Other

Jan 3, 2024PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner's Sur-Reply

Dec 8, 2023PAPERPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner's Request for Oral Argument

Dec 8, 2023PAPERPATENT OWNER

Petitioner's Request for Oral Argument

Dec 8, 2023PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner's Reply to Patent Owner's Response

Oct 27, 2023PAPERPETITIONER

Patent Owner's Response Under 37 C.F.R. ยง 42.120

Aug 4, 2023PAPERPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2011 Scordilis deposition transcript

Aug 4, 2023EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Petitioner's Second Updated Mandatory Notices

Jul 26, 2023PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner Verance Updated Power of Attorney

Jul 26, 2023PAPERPETITIONER

Patent Owner's Second Amended Notice of Deposition to Michael Scordilis, Ph.D.

Jul 18, 2023PAPERPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner's Corrected Second Amended Deposition Notice to Michael Scordilis, Ph.D.

Jul 18, 2023PAPERPATENT OWNER

Joint Stipulation to Move Dates 1, 2, and 3

Jul 12, 2023PAPERPATENT OWNER

Petitioner's Motion to Withdraw Certain Counsel

Jul 5, 2023PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner's First Updated Mandatory Notices

Jul 5, 2023PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner Verance Corp Updated Power of Attorney

Jul 5, 2023PAPERPETITIONER

Patent Owner's Amended Notice of Deposition of Michael Scordilis, Ph.D.

Jul 5, 2023PAPERPATENT OWNER

Order

Jun 26, 2023PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner's Notice of Deposition to Michael Scordilis, Ph.D.

Jun 23, 2023PAPERPATENT OWNER

Joint Motion to Terminate Sony Petitioners

May 10, 2023PAPERPETITIONER

Joint Request That Settlement Agreement Be Treated as Business Confidential Information and Kept Seperate

May 10, 2023PAPERPETITIONER

Settlement Agreement

May 10, 2023EXHIBITPETITIONER

Decision Granting Institution of Inter Partes Review

Apr 21, 2023PAPERBOARD

Scheduling Order

Apr 21, 2023PAPERBOARD

Patent Owners Preliminary Response

Jan 25, 2023PAPERPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2001 Backus, The Acoustical Foundations of Music excerpts

Jan 25, 2023EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2002 Olson, Music Physics and Engineering Excerpts

Jan 25, 2023EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2003 McGraw Hill Excerpts

Jan 25, 2023EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2004 Benade, Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics Excerpt

Jan 25, 2023EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2005 White, Physics and Music Excerpts

Jan 25, 2023EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2006 Random House Excerpts_quantize

Jan 25, 2023EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2007 Ballou, Handbook for Sound Engineers

Jan 25, 2023EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2008 - U.S. Pat. No. 6,996,521

Jan 25, 2023EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2009 - Specification text of U.S. Pat. No. 6,272,176 compared to specification text of U.S. Pat. No. 6,504,870

Jan 25, 2023EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Ex. 2010 - Breaking down confusions over Fast Four

Jan 25, 2023EXHIBITPATENT OWNER

Notice: Notice filing date accorded

Oct 25, 2022PAPERBOARD

Patent Owner's Power of Attorney

Oct 6, 2022PAPERPATENT OWNER

Patent Owner's Mandatory Notices

Oct 6, 2022PAPERPATENT OWNER

U.S. Patent No. 7,289,961 ("'961 Patent")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Prosecution History of U.S. Patent No. 7,289,961

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Curriculum Vitae of Michael Scordilis, Ph.D.

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,272,176 ("Srinivasan")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

PCT Publication WO 01/58063 ("Kudumakis")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 4,546,779 ("Meno")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Cox et al., Proc. of the SPIE , Human Vision and Electronic Imaging II (1997) ("Cox-1997")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Swanson et al., Signal Processing (1998) ("Swanson")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 3,845,391

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 4,931,871

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 3,004,104

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 5,629,739

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 5,745,604 ("'604 Patent")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 5,579,124

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Cox et al., NEC Research Institute, Technical Report 95-10 (1995) ("Cox-1995")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,151,578

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Declaration of Gordon MacPherson Relating to Exhibit 1008

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,996,521

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Risset, The Psychology of Music (2nd ed. 1999)

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Suzuki et al., J. Audio Eng. Soc. (1980)

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Lie et al., 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2001) ("Lie")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Gopalan et al., IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings (2001) ("Gopalan")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Piva et al., IEEE Internet Computing (2002)

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Publication 2003/0028381

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent Publication 2003/0076245

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Cox et al., EURASIP J. on Advances in Signal Processing (2002) ("Cox-2002")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Xu et al., RIAO2000: Content-Based Multimedia Information Access (2000)

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Haitsma et al., Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia 2000 Workshops (2000)

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,633,653 ("Hobson")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,298,322

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 5,450,490 ("Jensen")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,175,627 ("Petrovic")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Cox et al, IEEE Journal On Selected Areas in Communications (1998) ("Cox-1998")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 5,949,055

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,101,602

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,064,737

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 6,141,441

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Hartung, Proceedings of the IEEE (1999)

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Johnson, Computer (1998)

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Podilchuk et al., IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2001) ("Podilchuk")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Declaration of Rachel J. Watters Relating to Exhibit 1006

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Declaration of Rachel J. Watters regarding Relating to Exhibit 1011

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Declaration of Rachel J. Watters regarding Relating to Exhibit 1021

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Declaration of Rachel J. Watters regarding Relating to Exhibit 1023

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Declaration of Mary K. Bolin, Ph.D.

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Tilki et al., Proceedings IEEE SOUTHEASTCON '97 Engineering the New Century (1997) ("Tilki")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Cabot et al., Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (1976) ("Cabot")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Wu et al., Proceedings of SPIE (2000) ("Wu")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Cheng et al., IEEE Int'l Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (2001)

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

U.S. Patent No. 7,133,534

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Declaration of Gordon MacPherson Relating to Exhibit 1055

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Cox et al., IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1997) ("Cox-SSSW")

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Declaration of Ziaad Khan

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Lipshitz, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (1982)

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petitioner Sony Group Corporation (Japan) Power of Attorney

Sep 23, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner Sony Corporation of America Power of Attorney

Sep 23, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC Power of Attorney

Sep 23, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner Sony Picture Entertainment Inc. Power of Attorney

Sep 23, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner Sony Electronics Inc. Power of Attorney

Sep 23, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Petitioner Verance Corporation Power of Attorney

Sep 23, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Sotera Stipulation to be filed on September 23, 2022 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

EXPUNGED

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER

Petition for Inter Partes Review

Sep 23, 2022PAPERPETITIONER

Declaration of Michael Scordilis, Ph.D.

Sep 23, 2022EXHIBITPETITIONER