$2,500 for prior art on IP Edge sub, Decatur Licensing

On February 23, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,706,476. The patent is owned by Decatur Licensing LLC, a subsidiary of the prolific NPE, IP Edge. The '467 patent generally relates to obtaining radio access network information and transmitting location information between at least two base stations, e.g., in a 5G network. It is currently being asserted against ASUS, Samsung, LG, and Motorola.

The contest will expire on May 31, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for Media Chain prior art

On February 18, 2021, 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 10,885,154. The patent is owed by Media Chain LLC, an NPE. The '154 patent generally relates to systems and methods for monetizing the reproduction of digital media content for the rights-holders of the digital media content. The '154 patent is being asserted against Roku in the Western District of Texas.

The contest will expire on May 16, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Karamelion reexamination request granted

On February 25, 2021, the USPTO granted Unified's request for ex parte reexamination, finding substantial questions of patentability for all claims of U.S. Patent 6,275,166, owned by Karamelion LLC, an NPE and affiliate of IP Edge. This order comes just under three weeks from the filing date. This patent relates to relaying communications to appliances from a central computer and has been asserted against smart home products in over 40 district court litigations.

View district court litigations by Karamelion. Unified is represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on PAIR, go to https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter 90/019,009, and click on the "Image File Wrapper" tab.

Karamelion reexam granted by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

$2,000 for WSOU '411 prior art

On February 25, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 10 of U.S. Patent 8,209,411. The patent is owned by the most prolific NPE assertor in 2020, WSOU Investments, LLC d/b/a/ Brazos Licensing and Development.

The '411 patent generally relates to systems and methods of providing content to a terminal and, more particularly, relates to systems and methods of providing content to a terminal having a limited display area for presenting such content. The '411 patent is currently being asserted against Salesforce, in the Western District of Texas.

The contest will expire on May 15, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$5,000 for WSOU '715 prior art

On February 25, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $5,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,409,715. The patent is owned by the most prolific NPE assertor in 2020, WSOU Investments, LLC d/b/a/ Brazos Licensing and Development.

The ‘715 patent generally relates to an impersonation attack detection system for a wireless node of a wireless communication network. Specifically, Unified seeks art on the method that operatively connects the wireless node with an intrusion detection module, provides the intrusion detection module with a copy of the original data frames transmitted by the wireless node over a wireless interface, and then compares information in the copy with information in incoming data frames at the intrusion detection module. During prosecution, the patent examiner allowed the claims of the ’715 patent over U.S. Patent 6,745,333 based on these features. The ‘715 patent is currently being asserted against Arista Networks in the Western District of Texas.

The contest will expire on May 15, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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