$3,000 awarded for IngenioSpec eyeware patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $3,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by IngenioSpec LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to smart eyewear. They have been asserted against Samsung, Bose Corporation, Sony, and LG.

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 11762224 - Eyewear with Electrical Components (claim 27)

Winners - Dinesh Swami & Calvin Zhong

Winning Submissions: US 5654786; WO 2002045044

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US 11803069 - Eyewear with Embedded Electrical Components (claim 1)

Winning Submissions: US 3091020; US 2930857; WO 1994009398

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US 11829518 - Head-worn Device with Connection Region (claim 1)

Winner - Huang Chien-Cheng

Winning Submissions: WO 1994009398; US 7755975; US 20140043740

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$6,000 for Polaris Innovations memory patents prior art

Unified Patents added three new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by Polaris Innovations Limited, an NPE and entity of Owlpoint IP Opportunities JVF I LP. The patents generally relate to various semiconductor memory technologies. The patents have been asserted against Qualcomm.

The contests will expire on April 30, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for these contests.

US 7184339 - Semiconductor Memory Testing

US 7499371 - Semiconductor Memory System

US 8117526 - Data Bus Inversion

$2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Auth Token, authentication 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 8,375,212, owned and asserted by Auth Token LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The '212 patent describes an authentication token system utilizing smart card technology for secure access control. It has been asserted against in over 45 district cases but most recently against Ally Financial.

The contest will expire on April 19, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Fractus LTE antenna patent challenge instituted

On March 18, 2025, three weeks 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 8,593,349, owned and asserted by Fractus S.A., an NPE. The ‘349 patent generally relates to a volumetric antenna for use in a wireless devices.

View district court litigations by Fractus. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019855

Velos HEVC/H264 video codec patent confirmed invalid by PTAB

On March 18, 2025, the PTAB confirmed the final rejection of all claims in the ex parte reexamination of U.S. Patent 10,390,013, owned by Velos Media, an NPE. The '013 patent generally relates to encoding syntax elements that indicate tile information into a slice header. Velos Media patents have been identified as part of the Avanci Video patent pool, and Avanci asserts its pool covers AV1, H.265 (HEVC), H.266 (VVC), MPEG-DASH, and VP9 technologies.

Unified was represented by in-house counsel Jessica L.A. Marks and Michelle Aspen.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90015239.