$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.

ETRI video compression patent being investigated

The team at Unified is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against a patent owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The patent describes image encoding and decoding using unidirectional intra prediction. It divides image blocks into sub-blocks, determines whether they share a prediction mode, and selects their processing order based on that mode. ETRI has sued companies accusing streaming services and the use of H.265 codec to encode/decode user content. For more details, contact info@unifiedpatents.com.

$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.

Nom Nom Data optimization patent being investigated

The team at Unified is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against a patent owned by Nom Nom Data, Inc. The patent analyzes execution-event data to identify bottleneck SQL tasks and constrained resources, such as memory, storage, processing capacity, or network bandwidth. For more details, contact info@unifiedpatents.com.