$1,500 Awarded for Blyncsy prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Preeti Dua, who received a cash prize of $1,500 for her prior art submissions for 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.

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 SUBMISSIONS

Blyncsy PATROLL contest winner by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

$2,000 Awarded for SMTM Technology Prior Art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Angelo Iannaccone, who received a cash prize of $2,000 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent No. 9,973,622. The patent is owned by SMTM Technology, an NPE. The '622 patent generally relates to suppressing notifications of incoming communications on a mobile device.

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 SUBMISSIONS

United Patents_Winning Submission For_US9973622 (SMTM Technology) REVISED 10.01.2020 by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

$1,500 Awarded for Michael Philip Kaufman prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who received a cash prize of $1,500 for her prior art submission for U.S. Patent 7,885,981. The patent is owned by Michael Philip Kaufman, an NPE. The '981 patent generally relates to generating a user interface (UI) for a relational database, where the UI display includes various display modes. The ‘981 patent has been asserted in district court against companies such as Microsoft and Salesforce.

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 SUBMISSIONS

FINAL Revised Mapping_Unified Patents_Winning Submission for US7885981_MPK_12.01.2020 by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

IP Edge sub, Karetek Holdings, settles with Unified Patents

On January 8, 2021, the Board issued an order terminating IPR2020-01550 pursuant to a joint settlement request filed by Unified Patents and Karetek Holdings LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of IP Edge. U.S. Patent 7,373,515, related to a multi-factor authentication system, had been asserted against RetailMeNot, Golds Gym, HelloFresh, PetSmart, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas, and others.

Unified was represented by Wilson Sonsini and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Ashraf Fawzy, in this proceeding. View district court litigations by Karetek Holdings. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal.

ETRI patent challenged as likely invalid

On December 31, 2020, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,736,484, owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), as part of Unified's ongoing efforts in its SEP Video Codec Zone. The ‘484 patent is part of the HEVC Advance Patent Pool, as well as SISVEL's AV1 and VP9 patent pools.

Unified is represented by Drew Sommer of Greenberg Traurig and by in-house counsel, Ashraf Fawzy and 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 petition and review the case record, view IPR2021-00368 on the Portal.