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As part of the advocacy work of Unified Edge, Unified Patents has submitted comments to the PTAB's recent NPRM advocating against the codification of rules regarding discretionary denials under § 325(d) and for serial/parallel petitions.
Read through Unified’s comments by clicking on the button below:
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Umesh Sharma and Mani Manikandan, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 7,386,594, owned by Advanced Transactions LLC, an entity of IP Investments Group. The ‘594 patent relates to an email campaign generator that generates an email campaign template from an email target database. It has been asserted against Belk, Fiesta Mart, Advance Auto Parts, Regis Corp., Marco’s Pizza, The Gap, AutoZone, and Staples.
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 SUBMISSION
Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on three patents owned by Intellectual Ventures LLC, an NPE. The patents have been asserted against JP Morgan Chase, Comerica, and Liberty Mutual.
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 SUBMISSION for US 7712080 - Parallel Distributed Programming - DOWNLOAD HERE
“An Execution Order Control Method of Distributed Processes for Sharing Global Variables”
WINNING SUBMISSION for US 7949785 - Secure Virtual Community Network System - DOWNLOAD HERE
WINNING SUBMISSION for US 8407722 - Transferring Information Through Digital Networks - DOWNLOAD HERE
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 11,973,731, owned by Wrinkl, Inc., an NPE. The ‘731 patent relates to creating and displaying subsidiary channel-based thread communications in a group-based messaging system. It has been asserted against Slack.
The contest will expire on August 31, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On June 14, 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 1-15 and 17-23 of U.S. Patent 7,924,802, owned and asserted by Cobblestone Wireless, LLC, an NPE and entity of Bedrock IP Co., Ltd. The ‘802 patent relates to wireless communication systems that transmit signals simultaneously over a communication channel at different RF center frequencies. The patent has been asserted against Samsung, AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Cisco, HP Enterprises, and CommScope.
View district court litigations by Cobblestone. Unified is represented by Steven Shipe of Barnes & Thornburg, and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.
To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019458
