$2,000 for Blyncsy Prior Art

On October 20, 2020, 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 10,198,779. The patent is owned by Blyncsy, Inc., an NPE. The '779 patent generally relates to contact tracing of contagions and is currently being asserted against companies using this technology for the current Covid-19 pandemic.

The contest will expire on December 16, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Apex Standards	Pseudo Claim Charting
Techson IP	Limestone|Report
Amplified	Invalidity Report
Traindex	Prior Art Report
InQuartik	Semantic Prior Art

$1,000 Awarded for American GNC Prior Art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who received a cash prize of $1,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 6,480,789, owned by American GNC Corp. The '789 patent, directed to a collision avoidance system, had been asserted in district court litigation against Toyota.

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 5,111,400

Unified Patents_Winning Sub... by Jennifer M Gallagher

Qwikcash settles with Unified Patents

On October 7, 2020, the Board issued an order terminating IPR2020-00972 pursuant to a joint settlement request filed by Unified Patents and Qwikcash, LLC, an NPE. U.S. Patent 8,714,445, related to a cash transfer system, has been asserted against Blackhawk Network, Inc.

Unified was represented by Jason Mudd of Erise IP in this proceeding. View Qwikcash’s district court litigation.  To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. 

EPO challenge filed against GEVC by Unified

On October 8, 2020, Unified filed an opposition proceeding against EP 3 410 716 B1, owned by GE Video Compression LLC (GEVC). The ‘716 patent is generally related to coding of significance maps and transform coefficient blocks. This filing is a part of Unified’s ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone.

Read the entire filing below. Unified is represented by Dr. Simon Q. Lud, European Patent Attorney at Maiwald Intellectual Property, and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy.

EPO Opposition on GEVC '... by Jennifer M Gallagher

Jenam Tech patent determined to be likely invalid

On October 8, 2020, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims in an IPR filed by Unified against U.S. Patent 9,923,995, owned and asserted by Jenam Tech, LLC, an NPE and Oso IP affiliate. The ’995 patent, generally directed to sharing information for detecting an idle network connection between two nodes, has been asserted in district court cases against LG, Samsung, and Google.  

View Jenam Tech’s district court litigation. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified's Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jung Hahm and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.