Jeffrey Gross entity, Hyperquery, application search patent challenged

On November 5, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,529,918, owned and asserted by Hyperquery LLC, an NPE and entity of Jeffrey M. Gross. The ‘918 patent relates to a system and method for searching for apps in a central repository based on the intent of the user. It has been asserted over ten times, with current cases against Sony, Nintendo, Roku, and Amazon.

View district court litigations by Hyperquery. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Jordan Rossen, in this proceeding.

AiPi entity, Gatekeeper Solutions, communications patent challenged

On November 4, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 9,032,038, owned and asserted by Gatekeeper Solutions, Inc., an NPE and entity of AiPi Solutions. The ‘038 patent relates to systems and methods for alerting a user of conflicting recipients when sending electronic communications. It has been asserted over ten times, but most recently against Darktrace, Forcepoint, and Trellix.

View district court litigations by Gatekeeper Solutions. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jessica L.A. Marks, in this proceeding.

$2,000 for Adeia Technologies optimization 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 9,208,155, owned by Adeia Technologies Inc, an NPE. The ‘155 patent discloses a content recommendation system focusing on enhancing user experience by observing and adapting to user interactions with various list presentations.

The contest will expire on January 3, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

$6,000 awarded for ASSIA networking patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners below totaling $6,000 in cash prizes. The patents are owned by Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment, Incorporated (ASSIA), an NPE. The patents generally related to DSL and other wireline technology. The patents have all been asserted against AT&T and Charter Communications.

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 10,848,398 - Optimizing Performance of Communication via Remote Server

Winners - Dinesh Swami & Nitish Jaswal

Winning Submissions: US 8064391; US 8565766

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US 11,050,654 - Downloadable Communications Agent

Winner:- Calvin Zhong & Ekta Aswal

Winning Submissions: US 8023937; US 7865589; US 20060034185

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US 11,477,108 - Optimizing WAN and LAN Network Communications

Winners - Ujjwal Jha, S P Ragupathy & Mani Manikandan

Winning Submissions: US 7991881; US 8190763; US 20100146074

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Estech System VoIP patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 7,068,684, owned and asserted by Estech Systems IP LLC, an NPE. The ‘684 patent relates to information processing systems for the use of Voice over IP technology to transmit voice conversations. It had been asserted in over 50 cases, but most recently against Zoom, Sangoma Tech, 8x8, Ooma, Zultys, Dialpad, Intermedia.net, Polycom, and Yealink Network.

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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