Prior Art

$2,000 awarded for IP Investments Group entity, Digimedia Tech, storage patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ritu Tyagi and Geethanath, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 7,287,088, owned and asserted by DigiMedia Tech, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ‘088 patent has been asserted against Box, Pinterest, CarGurus, and eHarmony.

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

New AI NPE Campaign — Prior Art Found

Unified’s IP Services using Pearl has successfully identified and charted prior art against a patent owned by the Artificial Intelligence Industry Association Incorporated, an NPE.  These patents generally relate to machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. They have been asserted against Osaro, Topaz Labs, Elementary Robotics, and Geisel Software.

Unified Patents used its first-ever GenAI patent landscape, OPAL for GenAI, to find the patent activity from the Artificial Intelligence Industry Association. OPAL for GenAI, available exclusively to the members of Unified Patents’ new Artificial Intelligence Zone, allows for a new way to identify and value patents, analyze risk, and determine the total top-down patent landscape quickly and easily—and be more prepared and better value the competition and litigations of tomorrow.

$2,000 awarded for FITE Technologies network patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ritu Tyagi, Ekta Aswal, and Dinesh Swami, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on 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 had been asserted against ByteDance Ltd.

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

$4,000 for Vision Sphere Labs networking 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 Vision Sphere Labs LLC, an NPE. The patents are currently asserted against Rubicon Communications, Fortinet, Airties, Bigleaf Networks, Adtran, Snap One, and Teltonika.

The contests will expire on September 30, 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.

US 7769028 - Adaptive Throughput Data Management

US 7990860 - Rule-Based Sequencing for Quality of Service

$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Conexus, network security 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 10,812,497, owned and asserted by Conexus LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The '497 patent details systems and methods for detecting network security threats through application data flow and connection lineage tracing within enterprise, cloud, and IoT environments. It focuses on collecting connection and application execution information, tracking users, and machines involved to identify suspicious activities. It has been asserted against Splunk, Rapid7, and Wallarm.

The contest will expire on September 6, 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.