$2,000 for Blyncsy Prior Art

On October 20, 2020, 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 10,198,779. The patent is owned by Blyncsy, Inc., an NPE. The '779 patent generally relates to contact tracing of contagions and is currently being asserted against companies using this technology for the current Covid-19 pandemic.

The contest will expire on December 16, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Prior Art Provider	Claim Chart Link
Apex Standards	Pseudo Claim Charting
Techson IP	Limestone|Report
Amplified	Invalidity Report
Traindex	Prior Art Report
InQuartik	Semantic Prior Art

$1,000 Awarded for American GNC Prior Art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who received a cash prize of $1,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 6,480,789, owned by American GNC Corp. The '789 patent, directed to a collision avoidance system, had been asserted in district court litigation against Toyota.

To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

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

• US 5,111,400

Unified Patents_Winning Sub... by Jennifer M Gallagher

$3,000 for Trust & Verify Data Protection Prior Art

On October 8, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on all of the limitations of dependent Claim 10 and including all of the limitations of independent Claim 4 of U.S. Patent 7,162,735. The patent is owned by Trust & Verify Data Protection, LLC, an NPE. The '735 patent generally relates to an arrangement with a protected code that comprises incomplete executable code and a call instruction to a security code such that when the security code is executed, it replaces the call instruction such that the executable code of the protected code is complete.

The ‘735 patent is currently being asserted against Best Buy, McAfee, Electronic Arts, Aspyr Media, Vimeo, Buzzfeed, and King.com.

The contest will expire on November 30, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Prior Art Provider	Claim Chart Link
Apex Standards	Corresponding Claim Chart
Techson IP	Limestone|Report
Amplified	Corresponding Claim Chart
Traindex	Corresponding Claim Chart

$2,500 for FireNet Technologies prior art

On September 29, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 7,739,302. The patent is owned by FireNet Technologies, LLC, an NPE and entity of IPinvestments Group. The '302 patent generally relates to firewalls for protecting network attached devices.

The ‘302 patent is currently being asserted against Kemp Technologies, Fortinet, Citrix, A10 Networks, and Fujitsu.

The contest will expire on November 16, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Prior Art Provider	Claim Chart Link
Apex Standards	Corresponding Claim Chart
Techson IP	Limestone|Report
Amplified	Corresponding Claim Chart
Traindex	Corresponding Claim Chart

$2,000 for prior art on inventor-owned patent, Kaufman '981

On September 16, 2020, 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 7,885,981. The patent is owned by Michael Philip Kaufman, an NPE. The '981 patent generally relates to generating a user interface (UI) for a relational database, where the UI display includes various display modes.

The ‘981 patent has been asserted in district court against companies such as Microsoft and Salesforce.

In addition, the '981 patent has been subject two prior IPR proceedings. IPR2017-01141 was denied because the combination did not appear to disclose the "scanning" limitation or storing/using the scanned data. IPR2017-01142 was denied because the Petitioner tried to break the priority chain, but the PTAB did not agree, so they did not reach the merits of those references.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

Prior Art Provider	Claim Chart Link
Apex Standards	Corresponding Claim Chart
Techson IP	Limestone|Report
Amplified	Corresponding Claim Chart
Traindex	Corresponding Claim Chart