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 9,275,982, owned and asserted by Mare Infinitus Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of IPValuation Partners, LLC. The '982 patent relates to semiconductor package structures and methods for forming interconnects between stacked semiconductor devices. It has been asserted against Samsung.
The contest will expire on August 8, 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.