PATROLL

$2,000 for Ortiz & Assoc. wireless patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,549,285, owned by Ortiz & Associates Consulting LLC, an NPE. The ‘285 patent focuses on systems, methods, and apparatuses for brokering data between wireless devices, servers, and data rendering devices (DRDs). It is currently asserted against Vizio, Microsoft, Amazon, FedEx, ScreenBeam, and NCR Voyix.

The contest will expire on December 4, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Incent crypto patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,639,566, owned by Incent Corp. (originally Reliable Business Group Inc). The ‘566 patent relates generally to a method and a system for providing promotion of commerce or contest to customers or participants and more specifically to a method and a system for providing promotions programs based upon the implementation of incentives. It is not a litigated patent but it is advertised: http://www.unitedmarket.io/about.html

The contest will expire on December 3, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 awarded for Digimedia Tech TV programming patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Nitish Jaswal, who was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 7,065,778, owned and asserted by Digimedia Tech LLC, an NPE. The ‘778 patent relates to utilizing personalized video recorders and other similar types of devices to distribute television programming. It was asserted against WideOpenWest Finance and Midcontinent Communications.

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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TG--2006 Holdings info tracking patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 9,454,741, owned by TG--2006 Holdings, LLC, an NPE. The ‘741 patent relates generally to information tracking, and in particular, to a system and method of tracking information in a business environment. The patent had been asserted against Carbonite, Wrike, Box, Acronis, pCloud AG, Microsoft, and Siber Systems.

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 awarded for Disintermediation Services web communications patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ritu Tyagi, Priti Dubey, and Ekta Aswal, who split an awarded $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 11,240,183, owned and asserted by Disintermediation Services, Inc. The ‘183 patent outlines a system for web-based communication. The system involves an electronic processor that manages conversations between users and responders. It has been asserted against several companies since 2022 such as LiveAdmins, Batia Infotech, LiveChat, MobileMonkey, 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.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS