$3,500 for PerDiemCo Prior Art

On October 30, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least Claim 1 of U.S. Patent 10,104,198. This patent is owned by PerDiemCo LLC, an NPE. The '198 patent generally relates to tracking information of a plurality of users and giving users different administrative privileges for maintaining information sharing and describing event condition. The '198 patent has been asserted against CalAmp Corp. and GPS Insight.

The contest will expire on December 15, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for Hawk Technology Systems Prior Art

On October 30, 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 No. 10,499,091. This patent is owned by Hawk Technology Systems, LLC, an NPE that focuses its assertions against various school districts (e.g., DeSoto County School District, 3:18-cv-00132 ND Miss.) and charitable organizations, such as Goodwill (3:16-cv-00279 SD Miss.), for simply using a security camera.

The contest will expire on December 15, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for Caddo Systems Prior Art

On October 30, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 3, including all of the limitations for independent claim 1, of U.S. Patent No. 10,037,127. The patent is owned by Caddo Systems, Inc., and is exclusively licensed to an NPE, 511 Technologies, Inc. The '127 patent is part of a family of patents relating to navigating a hierarchical menu having active links.

The contest will expire on December 15, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$3,000 for KinectUs Prior Art

On October 30, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least Claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,294,428. The patent is owned by KinectUs LLC. The '428 patent generally relates to a system and method for establishing a communication between mobile device users that register with a collaboration system, which determines a match between profile data of the first registered mobile device and profile data of the second registered mobile device. It is currently being asserted against Bumble Trading, LLC.

The contest will expire on December 15, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Webinar Materials - The Rise of Patent Litigation Finance: Data & Trends

Speakers: Alyssa Holtslander – Senior Patent Counsel, Unified Patents

Joshua Harris — Vice President, Burford Capital

Russ Emerson — Partner, Haynes and Boone

Jonathan Stroud — Chief IP Counsel, Unified Patents

While speaking on data and trends within patent litigation financing, we discussed how patent litigation financing works and who is providing the funding. We also discussed privilege and confidentiality issues, ethical issues, the impact of litigation funding to actual litigations, and other hot topic issues regarding patent litigation financing.

Thank you to the panelists for covering a very thought-provoking topic.

To listen to the recorded webinar, click here: https://vimeo.com/473656670

No formal slide presentation was given during the webinar. However, the slides below along with the article, “Pulling Back the Curtain on Complex Funding of Patent Assertion Entities” written by Jonathan Stroud, go hand-in-hand with our discussion today.

Please join us at our next webinar, Reexaminations Reborn: Strategies for Filing Ex Parte Reexaminations on November 19th at 12p EST. For more information, visit our website.

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