$1,000 awarded for AutoConnect user profile 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 9,147,297, owned by AutoConnect Holdings LLC, an NPE. The ‘297 patent focuses on building profiles associated with vehicle users, enhancing user interface and virtual personality presentations based on user profiles, creating targeted advertising profiles, modifying behavior through map routes based on user information, implementing vehicle location-based home automation triggers, and initiating vehicle communications with third parties. It has been asserted against Ford and GM.

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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Empire IP entity, Fleet Connect, Wi-Fi patent challenged

On February 4, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 7,742,388, owned and asserted by Fleet Connect Solutions, LLC, an NPE and entity of Empire IP. The '388 patent focuses on a system and method for increased bandwidth in digital communications, particularly within local and wide area networks including WLANs and mobile networks. It has been asserted in over 45 cases, most recently against Werner Enterprises, Ezurio, Lantronix, Cedar Electronics, Juniper Networks, and others.

View district court litigations by Fleet Connect. Unified is represented by in-house counsel, Andrea Shoffstall and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

DynaIP entity, Err Content, media casting patent challenge instituted

On January 28, 2025, one month 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 10,721,542, owned and asserted by Err Content IP LLC, an NPE and entity of Pueblo Nuevo/DynaIP. The '542 patent generally relates to providing main content and extra content to a user through a reference item. It has been asserted against Panasonic, Hisense, Spotify, Roku, Comcast, LG Electronics, and Amazon. 

View district court litigations by Err Content. Unified is represented by John Pienkos at Amundsen Davis and by in-house counsel, Kelly Hughes and T.J. Murphy.

To view the reexamination request, visit Unified’s Portal: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/exparte/90019787

Keysoft advertising patent challenged

On January 30, 2025, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 8,271,315, owned and asserted by Keysoft, Inc., an NPE. The '315 patent is directed to a targeted advertising platform using information gleaned from consumer purchases. It had been asserted against Amazon and others.

View district court litigations by Keysoft. Unified is represented by Christopher Schultz and Jasjit Vidwan of ArentFox Schiff LLP, and by in-house counsel, David Seastrunk and Roshan Mansinghani, in this proceeding.

$2,000 awarded for Raymond Anthony Joao entity, Amadora Systems security patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ketan Sachdeva, Calvin Zhong, and Deepika Palanisamy, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 11,922,429, owned by Amadora Systems LLC, an NPE and entity of Raymond Anthony Joao. The ‘429 patent relates relates to a transaction security apparatus that transmits a notification message to a communication device associated with an account holder of the account. The central processing computer provides for a retrieval, by the user or the operator via the display, of the information regarding the transaction and the photograph or the video clip of the individual involved in the transaction. It had been asserted against JP Morgan Chase, Bank Ozk, Frost Bank, Austin Bancorp, Regions Financial, Texas National Bank of Jacksonville, Bank of Texas, VeraBank, Truist Bank, and Texas Bank & Trust.

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 SUBMISSION