$1,500 awarded for Dominion Harbor sub, Redwood Technologies '834, prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Mani Manikandan, who was awarded a cash prize of $1,500 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 9,590,834, owned by Redwood Technologies, LLC, an NPE and entity of the Dominion Harbor Group. The ‘834 patent generally relates to radio communications.

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 SUBMISSION

• US 6944119

• US 5771224

• JPH 07143098

• “Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction using Optimized Pilot Symbols” (“Zhang”)

$2,000 awarded for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, AutoBrilliance '650, prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Mani Manikandan, who was awarded a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,337,650, owned by AutoBrilliance LLC, an NPE and Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The ‘650 patent generally relates to aligning sensors on a vehicle. The patent has been asserted against Honda, GM, and Nissan.

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 SUBMISSION

• US 6831591

• US 20130169811

• US 20080211912

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$3,000 awarded for Ollnova '371 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Ron Penaflor, who split a cash prize of $3,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 8,264,371, owned by Ollnova Technologies Limited, an NPE and Magnetar Capital subsidiary. The '371 patent relates to communicating change-of-value information in a building automation system and had been asserted against Google, Ecobee, Carrier Global, and Resideo.

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 SUBMISSION

• US 6967565

• “Integrating Building Automation Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks” (“Osterlind”)

How Some Brands are Successfully – and Cost-Effectively – Combating Online Counterfeiters

Unified’s Samuel Baird and Noel Paterson examine how some well-known brands are fighting off online counterfeit sales and winning the war against fakes. The article was published by IPWatchdog.com on October 13, 2022.

Protecting brands and going after counterfeiters is like herding cats. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of ways that online counterfeiters illegally monetize brands. Companies have many ways to combat them, but it can traditionally take lots of time, cost, and resources to do it. Now there is a less publicized option in the United States which can deter counterfeiters, takes little time, and often even pays for itself. This ultimately can result in true deterrence of counterfeiters for a brand in online marketplaces. With online sales exploding, there has been a marked increase in sales of counterfeit products, despite various solutions available to combat it. Indeed, the industry as a whole will see over $1.7 trillion of sold counterfeit products on various online platforms each year—and that estimate, by the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, was in 2015. Counterfeit sales result in the loss of millions of U.S. jobs and lost profits, and is by far the world’s largest criminal enterprise, with eCommerce counterfeit sales expected to grow to $6 trillion by 2024 in the United States alone.

“Overall, the number of filed eTROs (emergency Temporary Restraining Orders) has increased 70% from 2019 to 2021, representing a 72.8% increase in filings in a short period.”

Click HERE to read the entire article posted on IPWatchdog.com.

PacSec3 '190 networking patent successfully challenged

On October 5, 2022, the USPTO issued a final rejection of all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 6,789,190, owned by PacSec3, an NPE. PacSec3 was formed in 2020 with NACAR IP LLC as its managing member. NACAR IP was also formed in early 2020 with Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/a DynaIP), a patent monetization company, identified as its managing member. The ‘190 patent had been asserted against F5 Networks, NetScout Systems, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee, Cisco, and Juniper Networks.

View district court litigation by PacSec3. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser, Raghav Bajaj, and Angela Oliver of Haynes and Boone, LLP, and by in-house counsel, Roshan Mansinghani and Jordan Rossen.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90014756.