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Longhorn Automotive wireless communications patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 7,513,238, owned by Longhorn Automotive Group, LLC, an entity of Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC. The ‘238 patent focuses on improvements in wireless communication technology, specifically addressing the efficient usage and allocation of time resources in various scenarios, such as peer-to-peer and coordinated time division multiple access within IEEE 802.11 standards (e.g., 802.11be). It has been asserted against Volkswagen, Mazda, Mitsubishi Group, Volvo, Hyundai, Kia, and Nissan.

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.

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Lab Technology location tracking patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 8,503,973, owned by Lab Technology, LLC, an NPE. The ‘973 patent relates to methods and systems for determining the location of a caller during an emergency or other telephone calls. It has been asserted against Cisco, Microsoft, Stryker, Samsung, and Verizon.

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.

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$2,000 awarded for Incent crypto patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Nikko Quevada, who was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 8,639,566, owned by Incent Corp. (originally Reliable Business Group Inc). The ‘566 patent relates generally to a method and a system for providing promotion of commerce or contest to customers or participants and more specifically to a method and a system for providing promotions programs based upon the implementation of incentives. It is not a litigated patent but it is advertised: http://www.unitedmarket.io/about.html

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.

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$2,000 awarded for Payvox e-commerce patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Andrei Gilya, Mani Manikandan, Ritu Tyagi, and Ramesh Varadharaj, who split a cash award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,788,360, owned by Payvox LLC, an NPE. The ‘360 patent relates to wireless commerce systems. More particularly, the invention involves a point of advertising wireless commerce system to enable pervasive commerce with mass media publications. The ‘360 patent has been asserted against Mastercard, Apple, Samsung, Sony, Visa, and HMD America.

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.

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$2,000 awarded for Big Will messaging patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Mani Manikandan and Dinesh Swami, who split a cash award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 10,521,846, owned and asserted by Big Will Enterprises Inc., an NPE. The ‘846 patent relates to electronic messaging technologies, and more particularly, to systems, methods, and apparatus for accurately identifying a mobile thing (MT) and/or a motion activity associated with the MT using sensor data. It was asserted against SafeDrivePod International, Aware360, Solutions Into Motion Limited, and Matrix Telematics Limited.

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.

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