The team at Unified is using Pearl to identify and chart prior art against patents owned by High IQ Networks LLC. The patents target a wide array of networking products, including data center switches, line cards, operating systems, routers, and stack cables. High IQ Networks has used several patents in suit against Nokia, Ericsson, and others. For more details, contact info@unifiedpatents.com.
$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
US 10783506 - Access Control to Secure Facilities
Winners - Nisha Devi, Umesh Kumar
Winning Submission: US 20170046889, US 20120244875, US 9066327, US 9008917
$4,000 for Sol IP MIMO patents prior art
Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and asserted by Sol IP, LLC, an NPE. The patents relate to wireless data transmission in a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO)/WLAN systems. They have been asserted against AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Qualcomm, Volkswagen, and others.
The contests will expire on October 18, 2026. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests. 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.
US 9900067 - Transmitting and Receiving Data in a MIMO System
$4,000 for CyboEnergy power inverters patents prior art
Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned and asserted by CyboEnergy, Inc., an NPE. The patents relate to smart and scalable power inverters. They have been asserted against Northern Electric Power Technology, Home Depot, Duracell, Yotta Energy, Deye Ess Technology, and others.
The contests will expire on October 17, 2026. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests. 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 Arc Link networking 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 11,563,655, owned and asserted by Arc Link LLC, an NPE. The '655 patent relates to an SDN network hypervisor that virtualizes and optimizes network statistics collection for multiple virtual networks sharing physical switches. The patent has been asserted against Fortinet, Check Point Software Technologies, and others.
The contest will expire on October 9, 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.