$2,000 awarded for Analytical Technologies customer service patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Vibhor Dimri and Ira Heffan, who split a cash award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,799,083, owned by Analytical Technologies, LLC, an NPE. The ‘083 patent relates to restaurant customer service management systems and methods. It has been asserted against Dairy Queen, Raising Canes, Denny's, Starbucks, Chick-Fil-A, Five Guys, 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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$2,000 awarded for Longhorn Automotive lens system patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal, Mani Manikandan, and Devinder Kumar, who split a cash award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,810,803, owned by Longhorn Automotive Group, LLC, an entity of Alpha Alpha Intellectual Partners LLC. The ‘803 patent generally relates to a lens system that might be used by an illuminator in an interactive display system. The patent had been asserted against Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, and Volvo.

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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$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.

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$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.

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$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.