$2,000 awarded for ContactWave messaging patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Umesh Kumar, who was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 9,531,665, owned by ContactWave LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The '665 patent relates to the management and transmission of contact information from web pages directly to mobile communication devices. It has been asserted against Spotify.

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 SUBMISSIONS

• US 20020164977

• US 7305442

• US 20020161640

$2,000 awarded for Oso IP entity, Aloft Media, hyperlink patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Umesh Kumar, who was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submission on claim 23 of U.S. Patent 10,372,793, owned by Aloft Media, LLC, an NPE and entity of Oso IP, LLC. The '793 patent relates to computer-implemented techniques for improving the usefulness of hyperlinks in web pages. The patent has been in several complaints seeking declaratory judgments of non-infringement, invalidity, and unenforceability filed by Nouryon USA and Krueger International.

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 SUBMISSIONS

• US 5742768

• US 20040027391

• US 20050235203

$4,000 awarded for Radiant Patents optical patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned and asserted by Radiant Patents LLC (f/k/a PLS XLIV LLC), an NPE and entity of MVRE LLC. The patents have been asserted against Nokia.

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 10924188 - Digital Signal Modulation

Winner - Umesh Kumar

Winning Submission: “Rate-Adaptive Modulation and Low-Density Parity-Check Coding for Optical Fiber Transmission Systems,” Gho and Kahn (2012)

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US 10404366 - Monitoring Optical Signals

Winners - Umesh Kumar, Pankaj Kumar

Winning Submissions: US 8805185; US 6529316; JP 2000041026

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$2,000 awarded for Cogent Insights Licensing retail patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Umesh Kumar, who was awarded $2,000 for their prior art submission on U.S. Patent 9,794,797, owned by Cogent Insights Licensing Inc., an NPE. The '797 patent relates to secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. The invention enables secure distribution and control of electronic information via a virtual distribution environment, bolstered by tamper-resistant hardware for enhanced node security. It is involved in a declaratory judgement case with Hisense USA.

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 SUBMISSIONS

• US 6430408

• Berlemann et al.

Sulaco Enterprises cybersecurity patent prior art found

The team at Unified used Pearl to successfully identify and chart prior art against U.S. Patent 8,990,942, owned by Sulaco Enterprises LLC, an NPE. The ‘942 patent is generally related to application programming interface (API)-level intrusion detection. The patent has been asserted against Fortinet, Check Point Software Technologies, Radware, and Sophos.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

• US 20120079596

• US 20110307955

• US 20080209451