$2,000 awarded for Incent crypto patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Nikko Quevada, who was awarded $2,000 for his prior art submission on U.S. Patent 8,639,566, owned by Incent Corp. (originally Reliable Business Group Inc). The ‘566 patent relates generally to a method and a system for providing promotion of commerce or contest to customers or participants and more specifically to a method and a system for providing promotions programs based upon the implementation of incentives. It is not a litigated patent but it is advertised: http://www.unitedmarket.io/about.html

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

Cloud Byte cloud storage patent challenged

On December 16, 2024, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,739,544, owned and asserted by Cloud Byte LLC, an NPE. The ‘544 patent relates to a disk array rebuild system and method. It has been asserted against Dell.

View district court litigations by Cloud Byte. Unified is represented by Steven Shipe of Barnes & Thornburg and by in-house counsel, T.J. Murphy and Jordan Rossen.

Litigation financier HPCF entity, Piranha, ad related patent challenge instituted

On December 13, 2024, two months after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 11,463,768, owned and asserted by Piranha Media Distribution, LLC, an NPE and entity funded by HPCF Litigation Finance US I LLC. The ‘768 patent relates to providing advertisements in digital media. It has been asserted against Hulu.

View district court litigations by Piranha Media Distribution. Unified is represented by Jon Bowser of Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Jordan Rossen and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019699

$2,000 for InnoBrilliance video streaming patent prior art

Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 13 of U.S. Patent 9,247,299, owned by InnoBrilliance, LLC, an NPE and entity of AppBrilliance, Inc. The ‘299 patent relates to a system and method for a television system capable of displaying multiple video streams simultaneously on a single display. The system allows users to select video groups based on attributes such as sports or news, displaying them in separate areas of the screen. The patent is currently being asserted against Vector Security, Zhejiang Dahua Technology, Arlo, Element Electronics, TiVo, Lorex, and Hangzhou Hikvision.

The contest will expire on January 14, 2025. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

AiPi entity, Gatekeeper Solutions, email filtering patent challenge instituted

On November 22, 2024, less than three weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on challenged claims 1-6, 10-28, and 32-45 of 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 several 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.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019719