Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Mani Manikandan, who was awarded a cash prize of $2,000 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 8,452,273. The patent is owned by Big Will Enterprises, Inc., an NPE. The patent generally relates to electronic messaging technologies for accurately identifying motion activity (MA) associated with mobile things (MT) using sensor data from a wireless communication device (WCD) transported by the MT so as to enable or initiate an activity based actions. It had been asserted against Montblanc, Unaliwear, and Kronoz.

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.

WINNING SUBMISSION

• US 7761233

• US 20120245839

• US 8416102