$2,000 awarded for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, AutoBrilliance '650, prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Mani Manikandan, who was awarded a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,337,650, owned by AutoBrilliance LLC, an NPE and Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The ‘650 patent generally relates to aligning sensors on a vehicle. The patent has been asserted against Honda, GM, 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.

WINNING SUBMISSION

• US 6831591

• US 20130169811

• US 20080211912

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$3,000 awarded for Ollnova '371 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Ron Penaflor, who split a cash prize of $3,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 8,264,371, owned by Ollnova Technologies Limited, an NPE and Magnetar Capital subsidiary. The '371 patent relates to communicating change-of-value information in a building automation system and had been asserted against Google, Ecobee, Carrier Global, and Resideo.

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 6967565

• “Integrating Building Automation Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks” (“Osterlind”)

$2,000 for IP Edge sub, Bassfield IP, prior art

On October 6, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 6,641,053, owned and asserted by Bassfield IP, an NPE and entity of IP Edge. The ‘053 patent generally relates to an image processing apparatus for encoding and decoding a document containing machine-readable code overlaid by human-readable content. It has been asserted against several such as PayPal, Target, Applebees, and Starbucks.

The contest will expire on December 16, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for Datamonitor Systems prior art

On October 6, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on U.S. Patent 7,594,009, owned and asserted by Datamonitor Systems LLC, an NPE. The ‘009 patent generally relates to a system for analyzing network traffic, particularly to detect suspect packets and identify attacks or potential attacks. It is currently being asserted against IBM.

The contest will expire on December 16, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for another Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Focus Global Solutions, prior art

On September 23, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on U.S. Patent 6,978,301, owned by Focus Global Solutions, an NPE and Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The ‘301 patent generally relates to a system and method for communicating with network devices without regard to the device type and/or manufacturer. The patent has been asserted against Lenovo, Juniper Networks, Cisco, HP, Extreme Networks, and Solarwinds.

The contest will expire on November 30, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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