The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 10,114,905, owned by EasyWeb Innovations, LLC, an NPE. The ‘905 patent generally relates to an innovative system and method for enabling electronic message publication to a wide audience via the internet, overcoming limitations of traditional broadcasting methods. The patent is currently asserted against Action Verb, PocketSmith, ContactOffice Group, BuiltWith Pty, Fastmail, X Corp., and SocketLabs.
NovaCloud Networking Patents Campaign — Invalidity Charts Coming Soon
The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against patents owned by NovaCloud Licensing LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to networking infrastructures and datacenter services. The patents have been asserted against Amazon, Meta, and IBM.
Unified Patents Approved for OpenAI Zero Data Retention; Equivalent Zero-Retention Configuration Confirmed for Gemini
Unified Patents, LLC secured approval from OpenAI for Zero Data Retention (ZDR) following an individual review process. ZDR removes OpenAI’s standard API log retention for our approved use cases. In parallel, our Gemini integrations on Google Cloud are configured for an equivalent zero-retention posture, including disabling context caching and avoiding features that store prompts or responses. These additional protections apply to Unified’s Portal tools: Pearl, Precision, and Ask Patty.
To our members, customers, and users in the legal community: we built these controls to reinforce the confidentiality. With these zero retention configurations, provider systems do not retain the prompts or outputs our tools send for approved endpoints and configurations—and neither provider uses our API data to train their models. These measures complement our internal safeguards and procedures designed to protect work product.
What this means for you
Zero provider-side retention by OpenAI: OpenAI does not retain inputs or outputs.
Gemini set to zero retention: Our Gemini integrations are configured to avoid provider retention (e.g., disabling context caching) and to exclude stored modes that could keep data.
No training on our business/API data: Our AI usage is implemented so that model providers do not use our prompts or responses to train their models.
Aligned with confidentiality: Our approach is designed to minimize provider-side exposure and help maintain the confidentiality of sensitive matters.
Wolverine Retail QR Code Campaign — Invalidity Chart Coming Soon
The team at Unified IP Services is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against a patent owned by Wolverine Barcode IP, LLC, an NPE and entity of Pueblo Nuevo LLC. The patent generally relates to mobile apps interacting with QR codes. It has been asserted against Starbucks, Shell, Kroger, Macy’s, Amazon, Best Buy, McDonald’s, Albertsons, and others.
Use AI to submit PATROLL Claim Charts for FREE
PATROLL contestants can now use Pearl, Unified Patents’ AI-based tool, to create invalidity claim charts faster and more efficiently than if they were creating them by hand.
Pearl can use prior art from patents, standards documents, product descriptions, scientific literature, or non-patent literature, and maps these references, including the citations, to each patent limitation in a table format that can be exported into Word, PDF, Excel or CSV format.
Going forward, PATROLL researchers will be required to submit invalidity charts that address every limitation of the challenged claim. This may require using more than one prior art reference.
PATROLL researchers are therefore strongly encouraged to use Pearl to generate claim charts. Each PATROLL researcher can generate up to 30 invalidity claim charts per month using Pearl. These charts can be downloaded then submitted to PATROLL.
Visit Unified’s website for more information on how to use Pearl. Visit our Help Center on how to become a PATROLL researcher.