$4,000 awarded for Vision Works vehicle sensor patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Vision Works IP, an NPE. The patents generally relate to acceleration sensors for use within moving vehicles. The patents have been asserted against Polaris, Nissan, and Mercedes-Benz.

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.

US 8954251 - Acceleration Sensor for Use Within Moving Vehicles

Winners - Sukhdeep Singh, Dinesh Swami & Ekta Aswal

Winning Submission: US 5805103; JPH 07291063; JP 3195805

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US 10391989 - Acceleration Sensor for Use Within Moving Vehicles

Winners - Sukhdeep Singh & Umesh Sharma

Winning Submission: US 6498976; EP 0919445

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$1,000 awarded for InfoGation navigation patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Dinesh Swami, who was awarded $1,000 award for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 8,898,003, owned by InfoGation Corporation, an NPE. The ‘003 patent generally relates to navigation systems. The patent has been asserted against Toyota, BMW, and Honda.

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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$3,500 awarded for Mimzi audio recording patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $3,500 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Mimzi LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to systems for recording audio conversations. The patents have been asserted against Foursquare, TripAdvisor, HTC, Acer, ASUSTek, and Samsung.

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.

US 11086929 - Photographic Memory (litigations)

Winner - Ekta Aswal

Winning Submission: US 20070037605; US 6091956

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US 11308156 - Photographic Memory (litigations)

Winners - Dinesh Swami & Ekta Aswal

Winning Submissions: US 7155238; US 20070037605

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VideoLabs digital content patents prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on the following four patents listed below. The patents are owned by VideoLabs, Inc. The patents generally relate to digital media content and some have been asserted against Netflix, Amazon, Roku, HP, Inc., and ASUStek.

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.

DOWNLOAD PRIOR ART - US 7440559 - Computer Program Product for Controlling the Flow of Content (litigations)

DOWNLOAD PRIOR ART - US 8291236 - Secondary Conditional Access Server (litigations)

DOWNLOAD PRIOR ART - US 8667304 - Secondary Conditional Access Server (litigations)

DOWNLOAD PRIOR ART - US RE43113 - Domain-based Management of Distribution of Digital Content (litigations)

IP Investments entity DigiMedia Tech H.264/AVC patent challenge instituted

On February 22, 2024, one month 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 6,606,287, owned by DigiMedia Tech, LLC, an NPE and an IP Investments Group entity. The ‘287 patent generally relates to recording and storing a media signal, while determining an optimal compression rate based on characteristics of the media signal while maintaining acceptable quality. The patent has been asserted against devices using H.264 / AVC from companies including Panasonic, Lenovo, OnePlus, TCT Mobile, Xiaomi, and Best Buy.

View district court litigations by DigiMedia Tech. Unified is represented by Eric Buresh and Nick Apel at Erise IP, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019389