Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,098,153, owned by Lattice Technologies LLC, an NPE. The patent relates to a method of providing emergency response to a user carrying a user device and more specifically to establishing communication between the user device and a monitoring database over the Internet to provide such responses. It has been asserted against ADT, Alert360, and Vivint.

The contest will expire on December 11, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.