$2,000 awarded for Technology In Ariscale wireless patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Dinesh Swami, who split a $2,000 award for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,139,652, owned by Technology In Ariscale, LLC, an NPE. The ‘652 patent generally relates to a method of decoding wireless transmission signals involving deinterleaving and mutually combining the repeated symbols. It has been asserted against Razer Inc. and is based on compliance with IEEE 802.11ac.

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 7630691

• US 7002900

$2,000 awarded for InfoGation navigation patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Dinesh Swami, who split a $2,000 award for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 10,107,628, owned by InfoGation Corporation, an NPE. The ‘628 patent generally relates to navigating on artistic maps and has been asserted against Toyota, BMW, and Honda.

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

• JP 2002181583

• EP 1426876

$2,000 for Leigh M. Rothschild entity Quantum Technology Innovations networking patent prior art

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 7,650,376, owned by Quantum Technology Innovations LLC, an entity of Leigh M. Rothschild. The ‘376 patent facilitates the distribution of content over a network (e.g., the Internet, a television network) and, in particular, the distribution of high-bandwidth (i.e., data intensive) content, such as video content or customized content. The patent has been asserted against several but most recently Valve Corporation, Showtime Networks, and Pandora Media.

The contest will expire on April 20, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity Secure Ink e-document patent prior art

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 8,140,440, owned by Secure Ink LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The ‘440 patent generally relates to the field of electronic document processing systems. It has been asserted against Box, DocuFirst, DigiSigner, Dropbox, Glykka, M-Files, Stewart Title Guaranty, Yoti, Signicat, and Zoho.

The contest will expire on March 20, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$4,000 for Helios Streaming multimedia patents prior art

Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Helios Streaming, LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to multimedia streaming. The ‘164 patent is currently asserted against Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

The contests will expire on April 20, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

US 8549164 - Media Transmission System (litigation)

US 8656041 - Distributing Multimedia Streaming Service Request