$4,000 awarded for Intellectual Ventures networking patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Dinesh Swami, sharing a cash prize of $4,000 for their submissions on the patents below. The patents are owned by Intellectual Ventures LLC, an NPE, and have been asserted against JP Morgan Chase.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. 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 7280998 - Virtual Data Warehousing

Winning Submission: US 20020038308; US 6671689

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US 7314167 - Secure Transactions

Winning Submission: US 20050071283; US 7207477

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DKR Consulting e-commerce patent challenged

On April 9, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,455,678, owned and asserted by DKR Consulting, LLC. The ‘678 patent relates to the generation and distribution of widgets for commerce over the internet. The patent has been asserted against Shopify.

View district court litigations by DKR Consulting. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Matthew Beck and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

Open Source Zone continues to enjoy wide industry support after 5 years

A recent article discussed how Open Invention Network (OIN), The Linux Foundation, Microsoft and a growing list of companies have renewed their support of Unified’s Open Source Zone for the fifth consecutive year.

Created to protect open source from invalid assertions by NPEs and patent trolls, the Open Source Zone has successfully invalidated over 50 NPE-owned patents that threatened innovation in open source technologies. The continued goal is to deter further invalid assertions in the technology space. The full article can be found in the link below:

$2,000 for Laixion Network data sharing 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 11,516,520, owned by Laixion Network Technology Ltd. The ‘520 patent relates to a data sharing system, a share list processing method, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium for data sharing. It has been asserted against Meta Platforms.

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

$2,000 for Equitable IP entity Communication Interface Technologies virtual connection 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 6,574,239, owned by Communication Interface Technologies LLC, an entity of Equitable IP Corporation. The ‘239 patent relates to client-server computing architectures and communication techniques. More particularly, the invention relates to a system whereby a mobile worker and a central server may maintain a virtually continuous connection without the need to maintain a physical connection continuously. The patent has been asserted over 70 times but most recently against CVS, Staples, Bridgestone, Petco, Kohler, Louis Vuitton, and others.

The contest will expire on June 3, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.