$2,000 for Technology In Ariscale wireless patent prior art

A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claims 1 and 14 of U.S. Patent 8,139,652, owned by Technology In Ariscale, LLC, an NPE. The ‘652 patent generally relates to a method of decoding wireless transmission signals involving deinterleaving and mutually combining the repeated symbols. It has been asserted against Razer USA. Infringement against Razer is based on compliance with IEEE 802.11ac.

The contest will expire on November 30, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Papst Licensing UI patent prior art

A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,871,962, owned by Papst Licensing GmbH & Company. The ‘962 patent relates generally to gesture based access to a movable shutter button for a camera on electronic devices with touch-sensitive surfaces. An electronic device having a camera and a touch-sensitive display supports methods for capturing an image using a movable shutter button thereon. The electronic device executes a camera application that may have a single movable displayed on the touch sensitive display, or two shutter buttons, one of which is fixed and one of which is movable. The patent has been asserted against Samsung.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Acacia entity, Monarch, networking patent challenged

On September 8, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,451,845, owned and asserted by Monarch Networking Solutions, LLC, an Acacia Research Corp. entity.  The ‘845 patent relates to converting data packets between the IPv4 and IPv6 domains. It has been asserted against Cisco and Juniper Networks.

View district court litigations by Monarch Networking. Unified is represented by James Stein of Lee & Hayes and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and David Seastrunk, in this proceeding.

MDSP Technologies navigation patent challenged

On September 11, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,239,376, owned and asserted by MDSP Technologies LLC.  The ‘376 patent relates to determining the position and acceleration of a mobile device using doppler aided inertial navigation. It has been asserted against Google, Apple, Samsung, Garmin, and TomTom.

View district court litigations by MDSP Technologies. Unified is represented by Patrick Muldoon, John Baird, and Paul Belnap at Duane Morris and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

$2,000 for Empire IP entity, BT Wearables, patent prior art

A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 10,729,336, owned by BT Wearables LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP LLC. The ‘336 patent relates generally to a mobile device such as a watch. It has been asserted against Dillard’s Incorporated.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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