$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

$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.

Umbra Tech firewall patent challenge instituted

On March 29, 2024, less than three months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 10,574,482, owned and asserted by Umbra Technologies Ltd. The ’482 patent is relevant to systems using a multi-perimeter firewall in a cloud-based system. The patent has been asserted against Cisco and VMware.

View district court litigations by Umbra Tech. Unified is represented by James Stein at Lee and Hayes and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Alyssa Holtslander, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019363

$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.