$2,000 for inventor-owned, Jaffe '828, image patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 6,757,828, owned by inventor, Jonathan E. Jaffe. The present invention relates to an improved method and system for authenticating images captured by digital cameras. The main aspect of the invention is the creation of a digital signature that ensures the authenticity of images by linking them to specific parameters and/or environmental factors. The patent has been asserted against Adobe and TruePic.

The contest will expire on March 8, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

IP Investments Group entity DigiMedia H.264/AVC patent held invalid

On January 12, 2024, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in Unified Patents, LLC v. DigiMedia Tech LLC, holding one challenged claim of U.S. Patent 6,473,532 unpatentable, and that another challenged claim could not be ruled on due to an antecedent basis issue (i.e., likely rendering that claim indefinite, or if not, unpatentable; see pp. 36-41 of the decision). Owned and asserted by DigiMedia Tech, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity, the ‘532 patent relates generally to processing and encoding of video images for later compression by standard compression techniques. The patent had been asserted against ViacomCBS, Lenovo, Panasonic, and OnePlus, and is currently being asserted against TCT Mobile and Xiaomi.

View district court litigations by DigiMedia Tech. To read the petition and view the case record, see Unified’s Portal. Unified was represented by Trenton Ward (now at Greenberg Traurig) and William Neer at Finnegan, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Fractus LTE antenna patent challenge instituted

On January 10, 2024, three months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 11,349,200, owned and asserted by Fractus S.A., an NPE. The ‘200 patent generally relates to a wireless device that includes an antenna system that has a level of complexity above a certain threshold. The patent has been asserted against ADT and Vivint.

View district court litigations by Fractus. Unified is represented by Chris Coulson at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Alyssa Holtslander.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019275

$2,000 for DynaIP entity Cloud Systems Holdco IP data management patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,975,051, owned by Cloud Systems HoldCo IP, LLC, an entity of Dynamic IP Deals. The present invention relates to a system and method for controlling, managing and routing data among multiple devices that are sources or consumers of streaming data and control devices present in a given environment in a hardware independent manner. The patent has been asserted against ADT, Samsung, Vivint, Monitronics, Google, and Ring.

The contest will expire on March 8, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Secure NFC PTY security patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,374,712, owned by owned by Secure NFC PTY. Ltd. The invention relates to the field of information technology security (ITS), and particularly, but not exclusively, to a multi-issuer architecture to enable the coexistence of the Secure Element partitions allocated to each card issuer within NFC enabled devices such as mobile smart-phones. It has been asserted against Mastercard.

The contest will expire on March 8, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.