PATROLL

$1,000 Awarded for Ryujin LLC prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Herb Cohen, who received a cash prize of $1,000 for his prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,577,559, owned by Ryujin LLC, previously a J. Szarzynski entity but now an affiliate of Endpoint IP. The '559 patent generally relates to a system and method for delivering media content to a user and had been asserted in district court against Plex Inc. and Synology Inc..

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 Sanderling '412 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winning submission for U.S. Patent 9,355,412. The patent is owned by Sanderling Management Ltd., an NPE., and relates to forwarding a processing function, such as an overlay, to a user's mobile image processing application when the user's mobile device indicates a certain GPS reading. The ‘412 patent is currently being asserted against Snap, Inc.

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

$1,500 Awarded for DivX '792 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, James Busch, who received a cash prize of $1,500 for his prior art submission for US 8,472,792. The patent is owned by DivX, LLC, a subsidiary of well-known NPE, Fortress Investment Group. The '792 patent relates to encoding and decoding multimedia files having at least one video track and at least one audio track and had been asserted against Netflix and Hulu in district court.

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

$3,000 for Acacia subsidiary prior art, Stingray IP Solutions

On March 10, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 51 of U.S. Patent 7,224,678. The patent is owned by Stingray IP Solutions, LLC, a subsidiary of Acacia Research Group, an NPE.

The '678 patent generally relates to wireless LAN with intrusion detection features. It has been asserted against TP-Link Technologies, Signify, and Samsung in the Eastern District of Texas.

The contest will expire on June 1, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for AML IP prior art

On March 2, 2021, 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 6,876,979. This patent is owned by AML IP, LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of Dynamic IP Deals, LLC.

The '979 patent generally relates to a system and method for supporting electronic commerce in an environment in which multiple service providers each have associated vendors where a user may maintain an account at a service provider that is different from the service provider associated with the vendor from which a user makes an on-line purchase. AML IP is currently asserting the patent against Blizzard Entertainment, Kongregate, Coinbase, Rebilly, Payment Approved Technologies, and AffiniPay.

The contest will expire on July 1, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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