$2,500 for CDN Innovations prior art

On September 16, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 13 of U.S. Patent 6,311,180, using the preamble as a limitation. The '180 patent is owned by CDN Innovations, LLC, an NPE and entity of IPinvestments Group, and generally relates to a method that allows documents to be viewed on a plurality of devices according to the preferences of the user.

The ‘180 patent is currently being asserted against Grande Communications Networks, LLC. View CDN Innovations’s district court litigation.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$1,000 Awarded for Landmark Technology prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who received a cash prize of $1,000 for prior art submitted for U.S. Patent 7,010,508. The '508 patent is owned by and asserted by Landmark Technology, LLC, and specifically relates to a means for screening loan applications, but has been broadly asserted against a variety of products and services using e-commerce systems.

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

Landmark Technology '508 chart by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

KAIST and KBS patent held unpatentable

On September 14, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) holding all claims of US Patent 9,838,720 unpatentable. The ‘720 patent is owned by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), which have participated in the HEVC Advance and MPEG-LA patent pools. Unified filed this challenge as part of its ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Unified was represented by Cono Carrano and Clark Gordon from Akin Gump, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding. Visit Unified’s Portal for more information about its Video Codec landscape (OPAL) and standard submission repository (OPEN). To read the decision and review the proceeding, view IPR2019-00725 on the Portal.

Another Sound View patent determined to have substantial questions of patentability, reexamination request granted

On September 11, 2020, the Central Reexamination Unit of the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Unified Patents' request for ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 6,725,456, owned and asserted by Sound View Innovations, LLC, finding substantial new questions of patentability for the challenged claim. The request was filed in an effort to protect Open Source technologies from invalid NPE assertions. The ’456 patent generally relates to ensuring quality of service in an operating system. Sound View recently asserted this patent against Cigna, Walmart, Vudu, Delta Air Lines, DISH Network, and Sling TV. 

View district court litigations by Sound View. Read the order below. Unified is represented by Haynes and Boone and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/014,560, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

$2,000 Awarded for Valyrian IP prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Sanjay Sharma and Arpit Jain, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 6,970,706. The '706 patent generally relates to call forwarding techniques based based on priority levels for cordless phone systems. The patent is owned by Valyrian IP LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity.

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 6,970,706 The '706 patent ("Siemens") (filed on December 5, 2000) discloses a cordless digital telephonesystem which allows hierarchal call control. Claim 1 incorporates a base station operable inbroadcast mode and standard mode, broadcast mode allowing the broadcast of an incomingcall to all mobile units and standard mode which more closely resembles a conventional phonecall.