$6,000 for Cine Graphic Solutions prior art

On December 8, 2021, Unified Patents added three separate PATROLL contests with an opportunity to collect up to $6,000 in cash for prior art on at least claim 1 of three patents - U.S. Patent 7,388,587; U.S. Patent 7,629,977 and U.S. Patent 8,035,644 - all owned by Cine Graphic Solutions, an NPE and a subsidiary of Strategic Intellectual Solutions, LLC. Each patent generally relates to providing animation in electronic communications, such as emails and websites. The patents have been asserted against Motorola, Samsung, and Fujifilm.

The contests will expire on March 31, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

PATROLL Contest for U.S. Patent 7,388,587

PATROLL Contest for U.S. Patent 7,629,977

PATROLL Contest for U.S. Patent 8,035,644

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First Patent Pool for 3GPP Infrastructure Launched to Help Accelerate 5G

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Alium, a joint patent pool venture between MPEG LA and Unified Patents, is supporting the development of Open RAN by providing a solution to the uncertainty and risk posed by the more than 100,000 essential patents already self-declared. 

Open RAN increases competition in the telecommunications infrastructure space, enabling mobile networks to use different vendors interchangeably, thereby lowering costs. Support for Open RAN has increased significantly over the last several years. Governments around the world (including the US, India, Japan, and Australia) have declared the growth of Open RAN solutions to be strategic to their economic and national security.

But for the Open RAN market to grow to more than 220 million units by 2030 as projected, the market must address the risk and the patent uncertainty that threatens to slow adoption.

Alium was created to do that by providing a license of convenience for Radio Unit vendors to help decrease uncertainty in patent licensing fees related to their products while also providing compensation to patent holders for developing the technology.

Alium’s program is innovative:

  • Offers licenses for 4G / 5G infrastructure

  • Uses AI-based landscapes to determine royalty allocation (Methodology is here)

  • Requires no money from patent holders to participate

  • Includes a Patent Quality program to build the integrity of the Open RAN ecosystem by discouraging the assertion of invalid patents

The Alium Open RAN Radio Unit License provides a one-stop solution for vendors to receive a license with leading patent owners in a single transaction at a low per unit cost. Alium is currently signing up leading patent owners to offer the License to the market starting in Q1 2022. The full agreement is available to qualified licensors and licensees immediately.

For more information, please go to https://www.alium-llc.com/ or email: info@alium-llc.com.

$2,000 Awarded for Longhorn HD '924 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Preeti Dua, who received a cash prize of $2,000 for her prior art submission for U.S. Patent 8,725,924. The patent is owned by Longhorn HD, LLC, an NPE. The '924 patent generally relates to an information backup system with a storing mechanism, a power supply, and a host microcontroller. It has been asserted against Kyocera, TCT Mobile International, OnePlus Technology, and Samsung.

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

$2,000 for Wepay Global Payment prior art

On November 29, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on U.S. Design Patent D930702. The design patent is owned by Wepay Global Payment, LLC, an NPE and William Grecia entity. The patent describes the ornamental design for a display screen portion with animated graphical user interface. It is currently being asserted against Samsung, PayPal, and PNC Bank.

The contest will expire on January 31, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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BCS Software patent invalidated

On November 26, 2021, the USPTO issued a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate, cancelling all claims of U.S. Patent 7,302,612, owned by BCS Software LLC. The '612 patent relates to a high-level operational support framework for monitoring, assessing, and managing the health of applications (or components/objects) in a distributed computing environment. The ‘612 patent has been asserted against Hewlett Packard, Elster Solutions (Honeywell), Landis+Gyr, and Itron. The final office action was issued approximately 7 months from when the reexamination was ordered.

View district court litigations by BCS Software. Unified is represented by in-house counsel David Seastrunk and Ashraf Fawzy.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014709.