$2,000 for Multimedia Technologies smart TV patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 17 of U.S. Patent 9,185,324, owned and asserted by Multimedia Technologies Pte. Ltd., an NPE and entity of Transpacific IP Group Limited. The '324 patent relates to an intelligent or smart television platform within a broader effort to consolidate home entertainment and connected-device functions. The patent has been used in litigation.

The contest will expire on November 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 for IOENGINE 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 10,397,374, owned and asserted by IOENGINE, LLC, an NPE. The '374 patent describes a portable computing device that communicates with a terminal and a network server. The patent has been used in litigation.

The contest will expire on November 21, 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 Camada Solutions dashboard 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 8,736,764, owned and asserted by Camada Solutions LLC, an NPE. The '764 patent describes an Internet-enabled TV system and method for displaying interactive widgets alongside television programs or videos. Camada Solutions has used this patent in litigation.

The contest will expire on November 21, 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 Flash Uplink 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 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.

$4,000 awarded for Transparent Wireless wireless patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Transparent Wireless Systems, LLC, an NPE. The '034 patent relates to a wireless parking payment and enforcement system for both street parking and closed garages. The '506 patent relates to smartphone-based access control for facilities, especially parking garages.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. 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.

US 9123034 - Wireless Parking Payment and Enforcement System

Winners - Andrei Gilya, Umesh Kumar

Winning Submission: US 20100268618, US 20120184298, US 20120130891, KR 10-2009-0019142 A / KR101430444B1

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US 10783506 - Access Control to Secure Facilities

Winners - Nisha Devi, Umesh Kumar

Winning Submission: US 20170046889, US 20120244875, US 9066327, US 9008917

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