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On June 13, 2019, Unified added a $1,000 contest to PATROLL seeking prior art for US 7,617,537 owned by and asserted by Data Scape Limited, an NPE that has filed dozens of district court cases against such companies as Verizon, Spotify, Pandora, Dell and others. The '537 patent generally relates to a device for data communication and streaming.
The contest will expire on September 14, 2019. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.
On June 13, 2019, Unified added a $1,000 contest to PATROLL seeking prior art for US 8,386,581 owned by and asserted by Data Scape Limited, an NPE that has filed dozens of district court cases against such companies as Verizon, Spotify, Pandora, Dell and others. The '581 patent generally relates to a device for data communication and streaming.
The contest will expire on September 14, 2019. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.
On June 7, 2019, Unified added a $1,000 contest to PATROLL seeking prior art for US 6,6480,789 owned by and asserted by American GNC Corp. The '789 patent, directed to a collision avoidance system, has been asserted in district court litigation against Toyota.
The contest will expire on September 7, 2019. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.
On June 7, 2019, Unified added a $1,000 contest to PATROLL seeking prior art for US 6,311,555 owned by and asserted by American GNC Corp. The '555 patent purportedly relates to motion sensors for vehicles, but has been broadly asserted against auto companies as well as mobile device manufacturers for products containing accelerometers and gryoscopes.
The contest will expire on September 7, 2019. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.
Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, David Heckadon, who received a cash prize of $2,000 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 6,470,345, owned by Uniloc, a well-known NPE. The '345 patent, directed to a file directory system, has been asserted in multiple district court cases. To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.
