$2,000 for Safety Direct loss prevention 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 10,115,292, owned by Safety Direct, LLC, an NPE. The ‘292 patent generally relates to a device, where if the mobile device or important small item is removed beyond a user-defined distance, a visual and noise alarm will activate, thus immediately letting the owner and others know that a theft has occurred. The ‘292 patent has been asserted against Samsung, Apple, Alphabet, Zepp, and Tesla.

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

Dialect natural language patent challenged

On September 27, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,495,957, owned and asserted by Dialect, LLC, an NPE. The ‘957 patent relates to natural language human machine interactions using context information. The patent has been asserted against Amazon and Samsung. 

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

$2,000 awarded for Flick Intelligence information sharing patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Vibhor Dimri, who split a cash award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,465,451, owned by Flick Intelligence, LLC, an NPE. The ‘451 patent generally relates to a computer program product for displaying additional information about a displayed point of interest. The patent had been asserted against Magic Leap, Google, Apple, and Niantic.

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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Empire IP entity, Fleet Connect, wireless patent challenged

On September 22, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,058,040, owned and asserted by Fleet Connect Solutions, LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP. The ‘040 patent generally relates to minimizing RF channel interference in a device where two RF standards operate in the same frequency bands. The patent is being asserted against devices that have the ability to communicate using LTE, 802.11, or Bluetooth. Companies asserted against include Penske Auto, Aptiv, USIC Locating Services, Rivian, and Peloton.

View district court litigations by Fleet Connect. Unified is represented by Michael Jones and Mark Rawls at Rothwell Figg and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Jessica L.A. Marks.

DynaIP entity, Silent Communication, telecom patent claim cancelled

On September 25, 2023, the USPTO issued a Notice of Intent to Issue Ex Parte Reexamination Certificate in RE90/015,109, cancelling the lone claim of U.S. Patent 8,229,409, owned by Silent Communication, LLC, an NPE and DynaIP entity. The ’409 patent relates to recovering calls after an erroneous disconnection and has been asserted against Adobe, Fuze, Lifesize, and Zoho. Unified filed the request for ex parte reexamination in August 2022.

View district court litigations by Silent Communication. Unified was represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view any documents for the reexamination proceedings on Unified's Portal, go to https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015109.