Prior Art

$4,000 awarded for S3G Technologies software modifying patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by S3G Technology LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to a computerized system for efficiently modifying remote software. The patents have been asserted against over 25 companies and most recently against The TJX Companies and Luxottica of America.

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.

US 9940124 - Efficient Modification of Remote Software

Winner - Ekta Aswal

Winning Submission: EP 1980986 A2

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US 10261774 - Efficient Modification of Remote Software

Winners - Dan Lin & Ganesan Rajamanickam

Winning Submissions: US 10585982; US 20080267117

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Mimzi audio recording patents prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on three patents owned by Mimzi LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to systems for recording audio conversations. The patents have been asserted against Foursquare, TripAdvisor, HTC, Acer, ASUSTek, and Samsung.

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.

WINNING SUBMISSION for US 9128981 - Recording and Processing Audio - DOWNLOAD HERE

WINNING SUBMISSION for US 9792361 - Photographic Memory - DOWNLOAD HERE

WINNING SUBMISSION for US 11100163 - Photographic Memory - DOWNLOAD HERE

$2,000 awarded for Vilox search engine patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Dinesh Swami and Ekta Aswal, who split a $2,000 award for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 6,760,720, owned by Vilox Technologies LLC, a Texas-based NPE managed by inventor Joseph De Bellis. The ‘720 patent relates to a method and system for a dynamic search engine that facilitates search-on-the-fly/sort-on-the-fly capabilities. The invention is about enhancing search and data display techniques, particularly on various devices including handhelds, phones, GPS devices, and computers. The patent has been asserted against Salesforce and Oracle.

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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$4,000 awarded for Intellectual Ventures networking patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Dinesh Swami, sharing a cash prize of $4,000 for their submissions on the patents below. The patents are owned by Intellectual Ventures LLC, an NPE, and have been asserted against JP Morgan Chase.

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 7280998 - Virtual Data Warehousing

Winning Submission: US 20020038308; US 6671689

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US 7314167 - Secure Transactions

Winning Submission: US 20050071283; US 7207477

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$2,000 for Laixion Network data sharing 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 11,516,520, owned by Laixion Network Technology Ltd. The ‘520 patent relates to a data sharing system, a share list processing method, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium for data sharing. It has been asserted against Meta Platforms.

The contest will expire on June 8, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.