$2,000 Awarded for Big Will Enterprises '273 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Mani Manikandan, who was awarded a cash prize of $2,000 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 8,452,273. The patent is owned by Big Will Enterprises, Inc., an NPE. The patent generally relates to electronic messaging technologies for accurately identifying motion activity (MA) associated with mobile things (MT) using sensor data from a wireless communication device (WCD) transported by the MT so as to enable or initiate an activity based actions. It had been asserted against Montblanc, Unaliwear, and Kronoz.

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 7761233

• US 20120245839

• US 8416102

$2,000 for M4siz prior art

On June 30, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 6,526,402. The patent is owned by M4siz, LTD, an NPE. The '402 patent generally relates to a searching procedure, particularly for searching on the Internet, using a search engine associated with a database where the user submits a request string comprising a locator (or URL) for the search engine and a search string including at least one search term. This patent has been asserted against most major retailers such as Macy’s, Walmart, Wayfair, Sears, Petsmart, HEB, Kroger, Pottery Barn, and Aldi.

The contest will expire on October 15, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests.

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$2,000 Awarded for Big Will Enterprises '951 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Vibhor Dimri, who was awarded a cash prize of $2,000 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 8,737,951. The patent is owned by Big Will Enterprises, Inc., an NPE. The patent generally relates to an interactive personal surveillance and security (IPSS) system for users carrying wireless communication devices. The patent has been asserted against Montblanc, Unaliwear, and Kronoz.

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

• WO 2005017846A2

• US 20070174467A1

$2,000 for Dynamic IP Deals entity Missed Call prior art

On June 27, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,531,872. The patent is owned by Missed Call LLC, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals entity. The '872 patent relates to a communication apparatus for providing an indication about a missed telephone call. It has been asserted against NEC, Twilio, TalkDesk, Mitel, and Freshworks.

The contest will expire on October 15, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests.

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$4,000 for Dynamic IP Deals entity Silent Communications '409 & '874 prior art

Unified Patents added two separate PATROLL contests with an opportunity to collect up to $4,000 in cash for prior art on at least claim 1 of two patents - U.S. Patent 8,229,409 and U.S. Patent 8,792,874. The patents are owned by Silent Communications LLC, an NPE and Dynamic IP Deals entity. The ‘409 patent generally relates to allowing a calling party to make a called party be aware of its intention to establish a call session with it in one or more ways and has been asserted against Adobe, Lifesize, and Fuze. The '874 patent generally relates to providing messaging services which may provide for download, synchronization, voicemail-message to text-message translation, direct access and handling of selected voicemail messages through a user's user interface and is currently being asserted against Blackberry.

The contests will expire on September 30, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests.

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