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A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 11,100,070, owned and asserted by Lower48 IP, LLC. The ‘070 patent generally relates to system for manipulating hierarchical sets of data. The patent has been asserted against Shopify.
The contest will expire on May 1, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
Unified Portal’s OPAL (Objective PAtent Landscape) report was designed to address asymmetries in the licensing of standard essential patents and to create a more fair and transparent patent licensing process around core patents supporting next waves of consumer technology growth. Portal’s OPAL recently launched its Advanced Analytics for IEEE, Video Codecs, and 3GPP. Users can understand if a given area contains certain contributors or patent pools. In addition, it allows for an advance breakdown between the positive and negative training labels.
For example, the graph below looks at Sisvel WiFi 6 Members that account for 155 of the positive labels (Blue Circle) and 251 of the Negative Labels (Orange Circle). This is the first tool to demonstrate the overlap between licensors, pools and standards.
In another example below, the same can be said of IEEE contributors with 884 positive labels and 2,139 negative labels.
For 3GPP, users can understand the relationship between the various generations of cellular technology.
For Video Codec, Portal users can select between the numerous pools and understand the various breakdowns in relationship to the entire video codec universe.
Unified's OPAL report is a one-of-a-kind patent landscaping tool that leverages advanced machine-learning techniques to create a flexible solution for negotiating and licensing Standard Essential Patents (SEPs). A free trial version is available through Unified's Portal. For more information, view our Methodology or email us at info@unifiedpatents.com.
Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 6,526,402, owned by M4siz, LTD, an NPE. The '402 patent generally relates to a searching procedure, particularly for searching on the Internet, using a search engine associated with a database where the user submits a request string comprising a locator (or URL) for the search engine and a search string including at least one search term. This patent has been asserted against most major retailers such as Macy’s, Walmart, Wayfair, Sears, Petsmart, HEB, Kroger, Pottery Barn, and Aldi.
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
Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 6,641,053, owned and asserted by Bassfield IP, an NPE and entity of IP Edge. The ‘053 patent generally relates to an image processing apparatus for encoding and decoding a document containing machine-readable code overlaid by human-readable content. It had been asserted against several such as PayPal, Target, Applebees, and Starbucks.
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
On February 13, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. Commworks Solutions, LLC holding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 8,923,846 unpatentable. Owned by CommWorks Solutions, LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of IP Investments Group LLC, the ‘846 patent relates to the recovery of information in a mobile communications network. It had been asserted against Comcast Cable Communications.
View district court litigations by CommWorks Solutions. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by in-house counsel Michelle Aspen, Ashraf Fawzy, and Jordan Rossen.
