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Unified Patents added three new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Columbia Peak Ventures, LLC, an NPE and entity of the Dominion Harbor Group. The patents generally relate to smart TV software and video applications.
The contests will expire on August 15, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.
US 7,446,803 - Synchronous Video and Data Annotations
Unified Patents added four PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Intellectual Ventures LLC, an NPE and generally relate to virtual data warehousing. The patents have asserted Kubernetes implementations of JP Morgan Chase, Comerica, and Liberty Mutual.
The contests will expire on June 30, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.
US 7712080 - Parallel Distributed Programming
US 7949785 - Secure Virtual Community Network System
US 8332844 - Root Image Caching
US 8407722 - Transferring Information Through Digital Networks
Unified Patents added two PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by by Croga Innovations, Ltd., an entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The patents generally relate to software applications and are being asserted against Kubernets implementations. The ‘780 patent has been asserted against IBM, Cisco, and Fortinet. The ‘601 patent has been asserted against Palo Alto Networks and Cisco.
The contests will expire on June 30, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.
Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 42 of U.S. Patent 7,068,684, owned and asserted by Estech Systems IP LLC, an NPE. The ‘684 patent relates to information processing systems for the use of Voice over IP technology to transmit voice conversations. It has been asserted in over 50 cases, but most recently against Zoom, Sangoma Tech, 8x8, Ooma, Zultys, Dialpad, Intermedia.net, Polycom, and Yealink Network.
The contest will expire on July 20, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Dinesh Swami, who was awarded $1,000 award for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 8,682,558, owned by Vision Works IP, an NPE. The ‘558 patent generally relates to acceleration sensors for use within moving vehicles. It has been asserted against Subaru, Volvo, Nissan, and Mercedes-Benz.
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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