PATROLL

$2,000 awarded for NTECH multimedia patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Ritu Tyagi, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,215,261, owned by NTECH Properties, LLC, an NPE. The ‘261 patent generally relates to media delivery and programming and was asserted against ByteDance, Ltd.

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 SUBMISSIONS

$1,000 awarded for inventor-owned, Jaffe '828, image patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal, Mani Manikandan, and Ritu Tyagi, who split an award of $1,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 6,757,828, owned by inventor, Jonathan E. Jaffe. The ‘828 patent relates to an improved method and system for authenticating images captured by digital cameras. The patent has been asserted against Adobe and TruePic.

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 SUBMISSIONS

$1,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity Malikie Innovations video encoding patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Dinesh Swami, Ramesh Varadharaj, and Gaurav Dhawan, who split an award of $1,000 for their prior art submissions on 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.

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 for Analytical Technologies customer service 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 8,799,083, owned by Analytical Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The ‘083 patent relates to restaurant customer service management systems and methods. It has been asserted against Dairy Queen, Raising Canes, Denny's, Starbucks, Chick-Fil-A, Five Guys, and others.

The contest will expire on August 31, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 awarded for Keysoft information sharing patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Yasodha Madhaiyan and Mani Manikandan, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,271,315, owned by Keysoft, Inc., an NPE. The ‘315 patent relates to a personal information utilization system utilizing off-premise communication networks such as the Internet. The patent has been asserted against Amazon and Salesforce.

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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