$2,000 awarded for Acacia subsidiary, R2 Solutions, 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 No. 8,341,157. The patent is owned by R2 Solutions LLC, an Acacia Research Corporation entity. The '157 generally relates to using query keywords to determine a user's intent for a search entry. It is currently being asserted against Walmart, iHeartRadio, Target, Expedia, Roku, Workday, and Deezer.

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.

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$2,000 awarded for IP Edge entity, Invincible IP, 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 9,635,134. The ‘134 patent is owned by by IP Edge entity, Invincible IP and is generally related to cloud computing resource management. It had been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, Nutanix, DigitalOcean, Alibaba, HashiCorp, LifeRay Cloud, and Kemp Technologies.

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.

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$2,000 awarded for NorthStar Systems prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Vibhor Dimri, who received a cash prize of $2,000 for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 8,478,527. This patent is owned by NorthStar Systems LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners, LLC. The ’527 patent generally relates to displaying and generating object vector indicators on an electronic map (e.g., visually displaying a route between two points of interest on a map). The ‘527 patent has been asserted against TCT Mobile, OnePlus Science & Technology, Kyocera, and ZTE.

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.

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Crandall Tech patent successfully challenged

On February 8, 2022, the USPTO issued a notice of intent to issue a reexamination certificate canceling all claims at issue of U.S. Patent 9,645,720. This notice comes approximately 12 months after Unified filed the request for ex parte reexamination. The '720 patent is related to data sharing, owned by Crandall Technologies LLC, an NPE, and has been asserted against Vudu.

View district court litigations by Crandall Technologies. Unified was represented by in-house counsel Ellyar Barazesh, Jessica L.A. Marks, and Jonathan Stroud, in this proceeding.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019007.

Oceana Innovations patent held invalid

On February 14, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Oceana Innovations, LLC holding all claims of U.S. Patent 6,508,678 invalid. Oceana Innovations LLC is an NPE and subsidiary of Endpoint IP. The ‘678 patent is generally directed to USB electrical connector assemblies with the patent being asserted against HDMI cable assemblies. In 2017, the previous patent owner, Interface Linx, LLC, asserted the ‘678 patent against TTE, Haier, Onkyo, Pioneer, Sherwood, Sound United, VOXX, and Hisense. Those cases were terminated in 2019, but Oceana Innovations began a new campaign in May 2020, filing suits against JVCKenwood, Charter Communications, and Roku.

View district court litigations by Oceana Innovations. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Jessica L.A. Marks, Roshan Mansinghani, and Michelle Aspen, in this proceeding.