PATROLL

$2,000 for Oso IP entity, Aloft Media, hyperlink patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 23 of U.S. Patent 10,372,793, owned by Aloft Media, LLC, an NPE and entity of Oso IP, LLC. The '793 patent relates to computer-implemented techniques for improving the usefulness of hyperlinks in web pages. The patent has been in several complaints seeking declaratory judgments of non-infringement, invalidity, and unenforceability filed by Nouryon USA and Krueger International.

The contest will expire on May 2, 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.

$2,000 for ContactWave messaging patent prior art

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 9,531,665, owned by ContactWave LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The '665 patent relates to the management and transmission of contact information from web pages directly to mobile communication devices. It has been asserted against Spotify.

The contest will expire on May 16, 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.

Sulaco Enterprises cybersecurity patent prior art found

The team at Unified IP Services used Pearl to successfully identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 8,990,942, owned by Sulaco Enterprises LLC, an NPE. The ‘942 patent is generally related to application programming interface (API)-level intrusion detection. The patent has been asserted against Fortinet, Check Point Software Technologies, Radware, and Sophos.

The prior art was found and charted by Alejandro Borge and Oscar Jarquin of Unified IP Services and Elaine Chow of Unified Patents.

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$2,000 for High Velocity Capital media patent prior art

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 8,249,912, owned by High Velocity Capital LLC, an NPE. The '912 patent relates to a method and system for analyzing and optimizing advertising effectiveness across various media platforms.

The contest will expire on April 30, 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.

$2,000 awarded for Mov-Ology electronic forms patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Nisha Devi, Ekta Aswal, SP Ragupathy, and Umesh Sharma, who shared an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,286,282, owned and asserted by Mov-Ology, LLC, an NPE. The patent relates to methods to retrieve data from partially completed electronic forms and use the retrieved data to identify the consumer who accessed the electronic form. The patent has been asserted against Oracle, BigCommerce, Temenos AG, Formisimo, and Mouseflow ApS.

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.

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