Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,230,497, owned and asserted by Flash Uplink LLC, an NPE and entity of Quest Patent Research Corporation. The '497 patent relates to network-based software vulnerability detection and remediation. It had been asserted against Aikido Security and others.
The contest will expire on November 7, 2026. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for the contest. PATROLL researchers are required to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Submitted invalidity charts must address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.