Prior art found for Blueprint IP

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Rakon Nahar, who received a cash prize of $1,000 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 8,089,980, owned by Blueprint IP Solutions, LLC, a subsidiary of well-known NPE, IP Edge, LLC. The ‘980 patent was acquired as part of a larger portfolio originating with Siemens, was used in an assertion campaign that started in March 2019 over a network redundancy patent, and has been asserted in district court litigation against various companies.

To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

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

• US20040153700 A1

$7,000 Cash Prize for Prior Art on DivX Patent

On January 24, 2020, Unified added a new PATROLL contest with a $7,000 cash prize for prior art submissions for US 10,212,486. The '486 patent is owned by DivX, LLC, a subsidiary of well-known NPE, Fortress Investment Group, and generally relates to playing back encrypted video involving cryptographic information. This patent is being asserted against Netflix and Hulu in district court.

The contest will expire on February 29, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.

DivX patents added to PATROLL

On January 23, 2020, Unified added 2 new PATROLL contests amounting to $6,000 in total prizes for prior art submissions regarding US 9,270,720 and US 8,472,792. The patents are owned by DivX, LLC, a subsidiary of well-known NPE, Fortress Investment Group. The '720 patent relates to generating a top level index file for use in adaptive bitrate streaming; and the '792 patent relates to encoding and decoding multimedia files having at least one video track and at least one audio track. These patents are being asserted against Netflix and Hulu in district court.

The contests will expire on February 29, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.

Prior art found for Rain Computing patent

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Angelo Luca, who received a cash prize of $1,500 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 9,805,349, owned by Rain Computing, Inc., an NPE. The '349 patent generally relates to methods and systems for delivering software packages to client terminals based on a subscription service by which a user is charged for specific applications that the user is subscribed to use and has been asserted in district court litigation. To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

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 6,584,454

$4,000 Cash Prize for Prior Art on Universal Cipher Patent

On January 17, 2019, Unified added a new PATROLL contest with a $4,000 cash prize for prior art submissions for US 7,721,222. The '222 patent generally relates to a non-English text generation system by which text can be generated in any language without a keyboard. The ‘222 patent is owned by Universal Cipher, LLC (an NPE) and has been widely asserted in district court. To protect innovation and deter future frivolous assertions, Unified is offering a $4,000 cash prize for the best prior art on this patent.

The contest will expire on February 17, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information or to submit an entry for this contest.