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Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on claim 1 of U.S. Patent 10,776,756, owned by EMM Innovations LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP LLC.. The ‘756 patent relates to assigning emotional selections to messages or multimedia objects on a network page. It has been asserted against Lark Technologies.
The contest will expire on October 10, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
Unified Patents is seeking prior art on claims 1 and 15 of PATROLL contest U.S. Patent 8,810,803, owned by Longhorn Automotive Group, LLC, an entity of Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC. The ‘803 patent generally relates to a lens system that might be used by an illuminator in an interactive display system. The patent has been asserted against Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, and Volvo.
The contest will expire on September 15, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
Unified Patents is seeking prior art on claims 1 and 15 of PATROLL contest U.S. Patent 7,987,002, owned by Longhorn Automotive Group, LLC, an entity of Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC. The ‘002 patent generally relates to an arrangement for measuring analog and digital signals emanating from sensors arranged on measurement objects that are included in one or several distributed control systems. The patent has been asserted against Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, and Volvo.
The contest will expire on September 15, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Croga Innovations, Ltd., an entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The patents generally relate to software applications. The ‘780 patent has been asserted against IBM, Cisco, and Fortinet. The ‘601 patent has been asserted against Palo Alto Networks and Cisco.
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 10,601,780 - Internet Security
Winners - Calvin Zhong & Mani Manikandan
Winning Submissions: US 8972981; US 8261317
US 11,223,601 - Isolation of Collaboration Software
Winners - Nitish Jaswal & Calvin Zhong
Winning Submissions: US 10348767; US 9774601; US 9672360
We are pleased to announce that Alibaba Group Holding Limited, a multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology, is now a Unified Patents member. Alibaba Group is joining 300+ other companies committed to deterring the assertion of bad patents by non-practicing entities (NPEs). NPE litigation filings have shown nearly a 15% growth increase in the first half of 2024 compared to the second half of 2023. Unified is the only entity which deters invalid patent assertions and never pays NPEs.
