$2,000 awarded for Payvox e-commerce patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Andrei Gilya, Mani Manikandan, Ritu Tyagi, and Ramesh Varadharaj, who split a cash award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,788,360, owned by Payvox LLC, an NPE. The ‘360 patent relates to wireless commerce systems. More particularly, the invention involves a point of advertising wireless commerce system to enable pervasive commerce with mass media publications. The ‘360 patent has been asserted against Mastercard, Apple, Samsung, Sony, Visa, and HMD America.

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 awarded for Big Will messaging patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Mani Manikandan and Dinesh Swami, who split a cash award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 10,521,846, owned and asserted by Big Will Enterprises Inc., an NPE. The ‘846 patent relates to electronic messaging technologies, and more particularly, to systems, methods, and apparatus for accurately identifying a mobile thing (MT) and/or a motion activity associated with the MT using sensor data. It was asserted against SafeDrivePod International, Aware360, Solutions Into Motion Limited, and Matrix Telematics Limited.

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 Empire IP entity, Dynamic Data Innovations, dataset 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 9,632,676, asserted by Dynamic Data Innovations LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP LLC. The ‘643 patent relates to systems and methods for management of object datasets and for rending instructions to dynamically update a graphical user interface (GUI) to present a subset of the object dataset. It has been asserted against Old Navy and TravisMathew, LLC.

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

Longhorn Automotive auto patents prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 7,987,002 and U.S. Patent 8,265,353, owned and asserted by Longhorn Automotive Group, LLC, an entity of Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC. The patents generally relate to auto manufacturing and supplies. The patents have been asserted against Nissan.

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 7,987,002 - Distributed Measurement System - DOWNLOAD WINNING PRIOR ART

US 8,265,353 - Forming an Image of a Mobile Object - DOWNLOAD WINNING PRIOR ART

Unified Files Amicus for En Banc Review of EcoFactor v. Google in Fed. Cir.

On November 26, 2024, Unified filed an amicus brief with the en banc Federal Circuit in EcoFactor, Inc. v. Google LLC, No. 23-1101. The full Court will be reviewing the proper standard under Rule 702 for admissibility of expert testimony regarding reasonable royalties in patent cases. Specifically, the Court will be considering a decision involving the admissibility of expert testimony that relied primarily on an inoperative clause stating the patent owner's "belief" to extract a single-patent royalty from lump-sum settlement agreements covering many patents. Unified wrote to advise the court on the prejudicial harms of admitting outsized damages theories before a jury.

Unified Patents is represented by William G. Jenks of Jenks IP Law, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Jonathan Stroud. Download the amicus brief below.