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

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $4,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned 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.

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.

US 10,601,780 - Internet Security

Winners - Calvin Zhong & Mani Manikandan

Winning Submissions: US 8972981; US 8261317

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US 11,223,601 - Isolation of Collaboration Software

Winners - Nitish Jaswal & Calvin Zhong

Winning Submissions: US 10348767; US 9774601; US 9672360

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Alibaba Group joins Unified Patents

We are pleased to announce that Alibaba Group Holding Limited, a multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, and technology, is now a Unified Patents member. Alibaba Group is joining 300+ other companies committed to deterring the assertion of bad patents by non-practicing entities (NPEs). NPE litigation filings have shown nearly a 15% growth increase in the first half of 2024 compared to the second half of 2023. Unified is the only entity which deters invalid patent assertions and never pays NPEs.

$2,000 awarded for Equitable IP entity Communication Interface Technologies virtual connection patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Nitish Jaswal, who was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submission on 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.

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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$1,000 awarded for NTECH multimedia patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who was awarded $1,000 for her prior art submission on U.S. Patent 9,317,597, owned by NTECH Properties, LLC, an NPE. The ‘597 patent relates to efficient and entertaining information delivery. 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.

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Fourth CellSpinsoft data transfer patent challenge instituted

On August 2, 2024, 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 11,659,381, owned and asserted by CellSpinsoft, Inc., an NPE. The ‘381 patent, similar to CellSpinsoft’s U.S. Patent 8,904,030, is directed to uploading data to a remote server using a mobile device as an intermediary, where the data comes from a device that does not have network connectivity. It has been asserted against ByteDance.

View district court litigations by Cellspinsoft. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj of Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Alyssa Holtslander, Roshan Mansinghani, and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019507