PATROLL

$3,500 for Trust & Verify Data Protection Prior Art

Unified Patents has a PATROLL contest, with a $3,500 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, and Buzzfeed.

The contest will expire on January 15, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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AmplifiedCorresponding Claim Chart
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$2,000 Awarded for SITO Mobile Prior Art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Sachin Srivastava and Preeti Dua, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 9,026,673. The patent is owned by SITO Mobile R&D IP, LLC, an NPE. The '673 patent generally relates to the transmission of multiple digital media streams from a server to a client device, e.g., where one media stream may be a piece of requested media, and another media stream may be an advertisement. This patent has been asserted in district court against Hulu, Blue Scout Media, and FloSports for their respective streaming platforms and content distribution methods.

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 SUBMISSIONS

$2,000 Awarded for GreatGigz Solutions prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Preeti Dua, who received a cash prize of $2,000 for her prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,490,086. The patent is owned by GreatGigz Solutions, LLC, an NPE. The '086 patent generally relates to job searching services, including a system for storing, processing, and transmitting job-related information (e.g., job openings, assignments, contracts, etc.) based on a job search request.

The ‘086 patent has been asserted in district court against LinkedIn, Grubhub, Angie’s List, Lyft, Uber, Instacart, DoorDash, HEB Grocery, and others for their respective job searching and job assignment platforms. 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 SUBMISSIONS

$3,000 Awarded for IP Edge Entity Prior Art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Rahul Vijh and Candy Khemka, who split a cash prize of $3,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,567,622. This former Panasonic patent is now owned by Swirlate IP, LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The '622 patent generally relates to digital modulation and transmission errors in wireless communication systems (e.g. cellular radios).

The patent has been asserted in district court over 10 times against ResMed, Livongo Health, Corning Optical Communications, Badger Meter, Continental Automotive, and others. The accused products include ventilators (ResMed) and blood glucose monitors (Livongo Health).

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 SUBMISSIONS

Winning Submission for US7567622_Swirlate IP LLC by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

$3,500 for PerDiemCo Prior Art

On October 30, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least Claim 1 of U.S. Patent 10,104,198. This patent is owned by PerDiemCo LLC, an NPE. The '198 patent generally relates to tracking information of a plurality of users and giving users different administrative privileges for maintaining information sharing and describing event condition. The '198 patent has been asserted against CalAmp Corp. and GPS Insight.

The contest will expire on December 15, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Techson IPLimestone|Report
Amplified Invalidity Report
Traindex Prior Art Report
InQuartik Semantic Prior Art