PATROLL

$3,000 for Trust & Verify Data Protection Prior Art

On October 8, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on all of the limitations of dependent Claim 10 and including all of the limitations of independent Claim 4 of U.S. Patent 7,162,735. The patent is owned by Trust & Verify Data Protection, LLC, an NPE. The '735 patent generally relates to an arrangement with a protected code that comprises incomplete executable code and a call instruction to a security code such that when the security code is executed, it replaces the call instruction such that the executable code of the protected code is complete.

The ‘735 patent is currently being asserted against Best Buy, McAfee, Electronic Arts, Aspyr Media, Vimeo, Buzzfeed, and King.com.

The contest will expire on November 30, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,500 for FireNet Technologies prior art

On September 29, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,739,302. The patent is owned by FireNet Technologies, LLC, an NPE and entity of IPinvestments Group. The '302 patent generally relates to firewalls for protecting network attached devices.

The ‘302 patent is currently being asserted against Kemp Technologies, Fortinet, Citrix, A10 Networks, and Fujitsu.

The contest will expire on November 16, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for prior art on inventor-owned patent, Kaufman '981

On September 16, 2020, 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 7,885,981. The patent is owned by Michael Philip Kaufman, an NPE. The '981 patent generally relates to generating a user interface (UI) for a relational database, where the UI display includes various display modes.

The ‘981 patent has been asserted in district court against companies such as Microsoft and Salesforce.

In addition, the '981 patent has been subject two prior IPR proceedings. IPR2017-01141 was denied because the combination did not appear to disclose the "scanning" limitation or storing/using the scanned data. IPR2017-01142 was denied because the Petitioner tried to break the priority chain, but the PTAB did not agree, so they did not reach the merits of those references.

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

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$2,500 for CDN Innovations prior art

On September 16, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 13 of U.S. Patent 6,311,180, using the preamble as a limitation. The '180 patent is owned by CDN Innovations, LLC, an NPE and entity of IPinvestments Group, and generally relates to a method that allows documents to be viewed on a plurality of devices according to the preferences of the user.

The ‘180 patent is currently being asserted against Grande Communications Networks, LLC. View CDN Innovations’s district court litigation.

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

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$1,000 Awarded for Landmark Technology prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who received a cash prize of $1,000 for prior art submitted for U.S. Patent 7,010,508. The '508 patent is owned by and asserted by Landmark Technology, LLC, and specifically relates to a means for screening loan applications, but has been broadly asserted against a variety of products and services using e-commerce systems.

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.

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Landmark Technology '508 chart by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd