PATROLL

$2,000 Awarded for Valyrian IP prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Sanjay Sharma and Arpit Jain, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 6,970,706. The '706 patent generally relates to call forwarding techniques based based on priority levels for cordless phone systems. The patent is owned by Valyrian IP LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity.

To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

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

US 6,970,706 The '706 patent ("Siemens") (filed on December 5, 2000) discloses a cordless digital telephonesystem which allows hierarchal call control. Claim 1 incorporates a base station operable inbroadcast mode and standard mode, broadcast mode allowing the broadcast of an incomingcall to all mobile units and standard mode which more closely resembles a conventional phonecall.

$2,000 for Intellectual Ventures '736 Prior Art

On September 9, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claims 17 and 36 of U.S. Patent 6,618,736. This patent is owned by Intellectual Ventures, an NPE. The '736 patent relates to file systems that are created and archived by providing a set of shared storage units and one or more templates. Each template includes a set of private storage units and a corresponding usage map.

The ‘736 patent is currently being asserted against Arista Networks. View Intellectual Ventures ‘736 district court litigation.

APEX STANDARDS has shared US and non-US prior art as well as corresponding claim charting against the patent.

Techson IP has provided its full validity-focused Limestone|Report, the full report link is here.

Amplified has provided a list of highly relevant invalidity search results for interested professionals to quickly begin search and analysis work. 

Traindex, a machine learning enabled search service, has provided an ordered list of most semantically similar patent documents where results are filtered to include only results with the publication date preceding that of the patent being challenged.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$1,100 Awarded for KCG Technologies '447 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Raghuram Varadarajan, who split a cash prize of $1,100 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 10,394,447. The '447 patent, directed to a virtual smart phone system for use in automobiles, is owned by KCG Technologies (an NPE) that has asserted similar patents against automotive companies in district court.

To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

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

$2,500 for VoiceAge EVS '073 Prior Art

On September 2, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claims 31 and 36 of U.S. Patent 8,990,073. This patent is owned by VoiceAge EVS, LLC, which is associated with Fortress Investment Group LLC, an NPE. The '073 patent relates to concealment of frame erasure caused by frames of an encoded sound signal erased during transmission from an encoder to a decoder.

According to the complaint, these patents are essential to the EVS Standard. The ‘073 patent is currently being asserted against Apple, Lenovo, TCL, and HMD Global. View VoiceAge ‘073 district court litigation.

APEX STANDARDS has shared US and non-US prior art as well as corresponding claim charting against the patent.

Techson IP has provided its full validity-focused Limestone|Report, the full report link is here.

Amplified has provided a list of highly relevant invalidity search results for interested professionals to quickly begin search and analysis work. 

Traindex, a machine learning enabled search service, has provided an ordered list of most semantically similar patent documents where results are filtered to include only results with the publication date preceding that of the patent being challenged.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,500 for VoiceAge EVS '710 Prior Art

On September 2, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claims 16 and 24 of U.S. Patent 7,693,710. This patent is owned by VoiceAge EVS, LLC, which is associated with Fortress Investment Group LLC, an NPE. The '710 patent relates to concealment of frame erasure caused by frames of an encoded sound signal erased during transmission from an encoder to a decoder.

According to the complaint, these patents are essential to the EVS Standard. The ‘710 patent is currently being asserted against Apple, Lenovo, TCL, and HMD Global. View VoiceAge ‘710 district court litigation.

APEX STANDARDS has shared US and non-US prior art as well as corresponding claim charting against the patent.

Techson IP has provided its full validity-focused Limestone|Report, the full report link is here.

Amplified has provided a list of highly relevant invalidity search results for interested professionals to quickly begin search and analysis work. 

Traindex, a machine learning enabled search service, has provided an ordered list of most semantically similar patent documents where results are filtered to include only results with the publication date preceding that of the patent being challenged.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.