Winners

$3,000 awarded in second Cloud-Native Heroes Challenge on PATROLL

Unified Patents and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) are pleased to announce the winning prior art submissions in the second Cloud Native Heroes Challenge, a patent troll bounty program. The results of this contest demonstrate the benefits of engaging open source developers and technologists with domain expertise in the fight against patent trolls.

This challenge sought prior art that can be used to challenge U.S. Patent 11,178,104, owned and asserted by Croga Innovations Ltd., an NPE and entity of Atlantic IP Services. The ‘104 patent describes a host computer system designed to enhance network security. The primary goal is to securely access Internet-based cloud services through authenticated and firewalled isolation. The patent has been asserted against IBM.

We have selected a combination of patents as the winning prior art for this contest. U.S. Patent Publication 2011/296487A1 and U.S. Patent 10,855,725. Ritu Tyagi and Nikko Quevada will share the $3,000 cash prize for their submissions.

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 offer 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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$1,500 awarded for Flexiworld Technologies communication patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $1,500 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Flexiworld Technologies, Inc., an NPE. The patents generally relate to communications over the Internet. The patents have been asserted against Indeed and Skype.

We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. 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 7099304 - Anonymous Communication (claim 1)

Winning Submissions: US 6157829; US 6870845; US 6564261

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US RE49176 - Enhancing the Efficiency and Relevancy of Transactions on the Internet (claim 38)

Winner: Calvin Zhong

Winning Submissions: US 5884272; US 7957991

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US RE48088 - Facilitating Connections Between Parties Through the Internet (claim 52)

Winning Submissions: US 20030158960; US 5862223

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US RE48066 - Data Mining User Information (claims 38 and 47)

Winning Submissions: US 9830600; US 5884272; US 7957991

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US RE46637 - Facilitating Transactions Over the Internet (claims 38, 47, 53, and 67)

Winner: Ekta Aswal

Winning Submissions: US 7957991; US 5862223; US 5884272

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$2,000 awarded for Empire IP entity, Dynamic Data Innovations, dataset patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Dinesh Swami, Andrei Gilya, and Calvin Zhong, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,632,676, asserted by Dynamic Data Innovations LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP LLC. The ‘643 patent relates to systems and methods for management of object datasets and for rending instructions to dynamically update a graphical user interface (GUI) to present a subset of the object dataset. It has been asserted against Old Navy and TravisMathew, LLC.

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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$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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$2,000 awarded for IngenioSpec eyewear patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Rahul Vijh, Dinesh Swami, and Andrei Gilya, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 11,657,827, owned and asserted by IngenioSpec LLC, an NPE. The ‘827 patent generally relates to hearing enhancement and directional sound systems, primarily for vehicles, evolving through multiple continuations from foundational ideas on hybrid audio delivery and directional communication systems. It has been asserted against 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.

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