$4,000 awarded for Intellectual Ventures networking patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Dinesh Swami, sharing a cash prize of $4,000 for their submissions on the patents below. The patents are owned by Intellectual Ventures LLC, an NPE, and have been asserted against JP Morgan Chase.

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 7280998 - Virtual Data Warehousing

Winning Submission: US 20020038308; US 6671689

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US 7314167 - Secure Transactions

Winning Submission: US 20050071283; US 7207477

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$2,000 for Laixion Network data sharing 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 11,516,520, owned by Laixion Network Technology Ltd. The ‘520 patent relates to a data sharing system, a share list processing method, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium for data sharing. It has been asserted against Meta Platforms.

The contest will expire on June 8, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Equitable IP entity Communication Interface Technologies virtual connection 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 6,574,239, owned by Communication Interface Technologies LLC, an entity of Equitable IP Corporation. The ‘239 patent relates to client-server computing architectures and communication techniques. More particularly, the invention relates to a system whereby a mobile worker and a central server may maintain a virtually continuous connection without the need to maintain a physical connection continuously. The patent has been asserted over 70 times but most recently against CVS, Staples, Bridgestone, Petco, Kohler, Louis Vuitton, and others.

The contest will expire on June 3, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$4,000 for Atlantic IP Services entity Croga Innovations software patents prior art

Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by by Croga Innovations, Ltd., an entity of Atlantic IP Services Limited. The patents generally relate to software applications. The ‘780 patent has been asserted against IBM, Cisco, and Fortinet. The ‘601 patent has been asserted against Palo Alto Networks and Cisco.

The contests will expire on June 30, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

US 10,601,780 - Internet Security

US 11,223,601 - Isolation of Collaboration Software

$4,000 for NTECH multimedia patents prior art

Unified Patents added two new PATROLL contests, each with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on the list below. The patents are owned by NTECH Properties, LLC, an NPE. The patents generally relate to media delivery. The patents are currently asserted against ByteDance, Ltd.

The contests will expire on June 1, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information or click on each link below.

US 9215261 - Media Programming

US 9317597 - Efficient and Entertaining Information Delivery