PATROLL

$2,000 for Longhorn Automotive measurement patent prior art

Unified Patents is seeking prior art on claims 1 and 15 of PATROLL contest U.S. Patent 7,987,002, owned by Longhorn Automotive Group, LLC, an entity of Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC. The ‘002 patent generally relates to an arrangement for measuring analog and digital signals emanating from sensors arranged on measurement objects that are included in one or several distributed control systems. The patent has been asserted against Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, and Volvo.

The contest will expire on September 15, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$4,000 awarded for Atlantic IP Services entity Croga Innovations software patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Croga Innovations, Ltd., an entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The patents generally relate to software applications. The ‘780 patent has been asserted against IBM, Cisco, and Fortinet. The ‘601 patent has been asserted against Palo Alto Networks and Cisco.

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.

US 10,601,780 - Internet Security

Winners - Calvin Zhong & Mani Manikandan

Winning Submissions: US 8972981; US 8261317

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US 11,223,601 - Isolation of Collaboration Software

Winners - Nitish Jaswal & Calvin Zhong

Winning Submissions: US 10348767; US 9774601; US 9672360

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$2,000 awarded for Equitable IP entity Communication Interface Technologies virtual connection patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Nitish Jaswal, who was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 6,574,239, owned by Communication Interface Technologies LLC, an entity of Equitable IP Corporation. The ‘239 patent relates to client-server computing architectures and communication techniques. More particularly, the invention relates to a system whereby a mobile worker and a central server may maintain a virtually continuous connection without the need to maintain a physical connection continuously. The patent has been asserted over 70 times but most recently against CVS, Staples, Bridgestone, Petco, Kohler, Louis Vuitton, and others.

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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$1,000 awarded for NTECH multimedia patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who was awarded $1,000 for her prior art submission on U.S. Patent 9,317,597, owned by NTECH Properties, LLC, an NPE. The ‘597 patent relates to efficient and entertaining information delivery. It has been asserted against ByteDance.

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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$2,000 for Distefano Website Innovations internet 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 11,763,316, owned by Distefano Website Innovations, LLC, an NPE. The patent relates generally to creating and posting web pages to the internet, and more specifically, to a method for more easily developing web pages through the use of a graphical user interface. It has been asserted against ByteDance.

The contest will expire on September 19, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.