Prior Art

$2,000 awarded for KEEEX digital fingerprint patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Umesh Kumar and Pankaj Negi, who split an award of $1,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 10,218,714, owned by KEEEX, an NPE. The '714 patent pertains to methods for verifying the integrity of digital data blocks and accessing them. Specifically, it describes a process that includes searching for a digital fingerprint within a data block, calculating a digital fingerprint by applying a specific function that excludes the bits of any found fingerprint, and verifying the authenticity by comparing the found fingerprint with the calculated one.

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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$2,000 for Adaptive Avenue website 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 7,171,629, owned and asserted by Adaptive Avenue Associates, Inc., an NPE. The '629 patent focuses on an enhanced web site access system, improving user experience through automated, customizable navigation across multiple web pages. It replaces static web browsing with dynamic presentations, incorporating bookmarks and slideshow features for ease of use and efficient content delivery. It has been asserted against several but most recently Amazon, Home Depot, eBay, Best Buy, Costco, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, OpticsPlanet, and PetCo.

The contest will expire on June 4, 2025. 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 FITE Technologies 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 12,028,640, owned and asserted by FITE Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of Anjay Venture Partners LLC. The '640 patent relates to a network of recording studios to share recording sessions in a social media format. It has been asserted against ByteDance Ltd.

The contest will expire on June 4, 2025. 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 Cooperative Entertainment 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 9,432,452, owned and asserted by Cooperative Entertainment, Inc., an NPE. The '452 patent addresses innovations in peer-to-peer (P2P) network content distribution. It has been asserted against several but most recently Lumen Technologies, Fastly, JFrog, and Alibaba Cloud US LLC.

The contest will expire on June 3, 2025. 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 for Polaris PowerLED memory 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 Polaris PowerLED Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to various nonvolatile memory technologies. Both patents have been asserted against Western Digital.

The contests will expire on June 3, 2025. 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.

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