PATROLL

$2,000 for Texas Secure Authentication 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 7,873,682, owned and asserted by Texas Secure Authentication LLC, an NPE. The ‘682 patent relates to a system and method to enhance information utility and intelligence on digital networks. It features the creation and manipulation of information containers with dynamic registers. The patent has been asserted against First National Bank of Central Texas, Frost Bank, Guaranty Bank & Trust, WatchGuard Technologies, Eagle Eye Network, and Fifth Third Bank.

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

$1,000 awarded for Distefano Website Innovations internet patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Calvin Zhong, who was awarded $1,000 for his prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 11,763,316, owned by Distefano Website Innovations, LLC, an NPE. The patent relates generally to creating and posting web pages to the internet, and more specifically, to a method for more easily developing web pages through the use of a graphical user interface. It has been asserted against ByteDance.

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

$2,000 for Querytron Heggem search 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 8,849,707, asserted by Querytron Heggem LLC, an NPE and entity of Eric Zautner. The ‘707 patent relates generally to search engines and, more specifically, to methods for business-oriented search. It has been asserted against Alibaba, Fiverr, and Redfin Corp.

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

$2,000 for Mov-Ology electronic forms patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on claims 1 and 9 of U.S. Patent 9,286,282, owned and asserted by Mov-Ology, LLC, an NPE. The patent relates to methods to retrieve data from partially completed electronic forms and use the retrieved data to identify the consumer who accessed the electronic form. The patent has been asserted against BigCommerce, Temenos AG, Formisimo, and Mouseflow ApS.

The contest will expire on December 16, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$2,000 for Lattice Technologies communications patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,098,153, owned by Lattice Technologies LLC, an NPE. The patent relates to a method of providing emergency response to a user carrying a user device and more specifically to establishing communication between the user device and a monitoring database over the Internet to provide such responses. It has been asserted against ADT, Alert360, and Vivint.

The contest will expire on December 11, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.