PATROLL

$2,000 for Lattice Technologies communications 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 8,098,153, owned by Lattice Technologies LLC, an NPE. The patent relates to a method of providing emergency response to a user carrying a user device and more specifically to establishing communication between the user device and a monitoring database over the Internet to provide such responses. It has been asserted against ADT, Alert360, and Vivint.

The contest will expire on December 11, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$14,000 for Avant Location Technologies mobile station patents prior art

Unified has added 7 new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on various claims on the list below. The patents are owned by Avant Location Technologies LLC, an NPE and entity of Anjay Venture Partners LLC. The patents generally relate to methods for monitoring the presence of a mobile station. The patents have all been asserted against Apple, Fibar Group, Nice Group, Samsung, and Generac Holdings.

The contests will expire on December 11, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

US 8738040 - claim 13

US 8934922 - claim 1

US 9042910 - claim 7

US 9119030 - claim 1

US 9485621 - claim 1

US 9622032 - claim 1

US 10009720 - claim 1

$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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