PATROLL

$2,000 for Leigh M. Rothschild entity Electronic Edison Transmission power patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,871,415, owned by Electronic Edison Transmission Technologies, LLC, an entity of Leigh M. Rothschild. The ‘415 patent relates to systems, methods, and devices for transferring power to a mobile device. It has been asserted against Samsung.

The contest will expire on May 25, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Key Patent Innovations entity Malikie Innovations video encoding patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 10 of U.S. Patent 9,179,147, owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The ‘147 patent relates to the use of soft decisions and iterative coding in Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and H.264 compliant video encoding. The patent has been asserted against ASUSTeK and Acer.

The contest will expire on May 25, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Edge Networking Systems network patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 10,893,095, owned by Edge Networking Systems LLC, an NPE. The ‘095 patent relates to a network architecture that facilitates secure and flexible programmability between a user device and across a network with full lifecycle management of services and infrastructure applications. The Distributed Software Defined Network (dSDN) disclosed is an end-to-end architecture that enables secure and flexible programmability across a network with full lifecycle management of services and infrastructure applications (fxDeviceApp). The patent has been asserted against Microsoft.

The contest will expire on May 25, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Pointwise Ventures location tracking patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,471,812, owned by Pointwise Ventures LLC, an NPE. The ‘812 patent is directed to a pointing device and more particularly to a pointing device which can allow a user to point to a spot and determine that spot's absolute location, either on a TV screen, a computer screen, or in the real world. The patent has been asserted against Microsoft, Alibaba Group, Blippar, Farfetch UK, IKEA, Roadget Business Pte. Ltd., Glority Global, Samsung, and Syte Visual Conception.

The contest will expire on May 25, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 awarded for WristDocs biotelemetry patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Dinesh Swami and Ekta Aswal, who split a $2,000 award for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,392,970, owned by WristDocs LLC, an NPE. The ‘970 patent provides a portable, disposable biotelemetry system, including one or more sensors, capable of being mounted on one or more extremities, particularly the wrist. The invention provides a biotelemetry system for disposition on the wrist. The device of the invention may be portable, untethered and in some instances, disposable. The features of the wrist biotelemetry system make it effective in stable, chronic or emergency medical settings. The patent has been asserted against Google, Garmin, ZEPP Health, and Apple.

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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