$2,000 for Adaptive Avenue website 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 7,171,629, owned and asserted by Adaptive Avenue Associates, Inc., an NPE. The '629 patent focuses on an enhanced web site access system, improving user experience through automated, customizable navigation across multiple web pages. It replaces static web browsing with dynamic presentations, incorporating bookmarks and slideshow features for ease of use and efficient content delivery. It has been asserted against several but most recently Amazon, Home Depot, eBay, Best Buy, Costco, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, OpticsPlanet, and PetCo.

The contest will expire on June 4, 2025. 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 FITE Technologies network 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 12,028,640, owned and asserted by FITE Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of Anjay Venture Partners LLC. The '640 patent relates to a network of recording studios to share recording sessions in a social media format. It has been asserted against ByteDance Ltd.

The contest will expire on June 4, 2025. 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 Cooperative Entertainment network 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 9,432,452, owned and asserted by Cooperative Entertainment, Inc., an NPE. The '452 patent addresses innovations in peer-to-peer (P2P) network content distribution. It has been asserted against several but most recently Lumen Technologies, Fastly, JFrog, and Alibaba Cloud US LLC.

The contest will expire on June 3, 2025. 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 Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Auth Token, authentication 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 8,375,212, owned and asserted by Auth Token LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The '212 patent describes an authentication token system utilizing smart card technology for secure access control. It has been asserted against in over 45 district cases but most recently against Ally Financial.

The contest will expire on April 19, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for KEEEX digital fingerprint 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 10,218,714, owned by KEEEX, an NPE. The '714 patent pertains to methods for verifying the integrity of digital data blocks and accessing them. Specifically, it describes a process that includes searching for a digital fingerprint within a data block, calculating a digital fingerprint by applying a specific function that excludes the bits of any found fingerprint, and verifying the authenticity by comparing the found fingerprint with the calculated one.

The contest will expire on April 12, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.