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$3,000 Awarded for IP Edge Entity Prior Art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Rahul Vijh and Candy Khemka, who split a cash prize of $3,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,567,622. This former Panasonic patent is now owned by Swirlate IP, LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The '622 patent generally relates to digital modulation and transmission errors in wireless communication systems (e.g. cellular radios).

The patent has been asserted in district court over 10 times against ResMed, Livongo Health, Corning Optical Communications, Badger Meter, Continental Automotive, and others. The accused products include ventilators (ResMed) and blood glucose monitors (Livongo Health).

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 SUBMISSIONS

Winning Submission for US7567622_Swirlate IP LLC by Jennifer M Gallagher on Scribd

$3,500 for PerDiemCo Prior Art

On October 30, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,500 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least Claim 1 of U.S. Patent 10,104,198. This patent is owned by PerDiemCo LLC, an NPE. The '198 patent generally relates to tracking information of a plurality of users and giving users different administrative privileges for maintaining information sharing and describing event condition. The '198 patent has been asserted against CalAmp Corp. and GPS Insight.

The contest will expire on December 15, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for Hawk Technology Systems Prior Art

On October 30, 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 No. 10,499,091. This patent is owned by Hawk Technology Systems, LLC, an NPE that focuses its assertions against various school districts (e.g., DeSoto County School District, 3:18-cv-00132 ND Miss.) and charitable organizations, such as Goodwill (3:16-cv-00279 SD Miss.), for simply using a security camera.

The contest will expire on December 15, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for Caddo Systems Prior Art

On October 30, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 3, including all of the limitations for independent claim 1, of U.S. Patent No. 10,037,127. The patent is owned by Caddo Systems, Inc., and is exclusively licensed to an NPE, 511 Technologies, Inc. The '127 patent is part of a family of patents relating to navigating a hierarchical menu having active links.

The contest will expire on December 15, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$3,000 for KinectUs Prior Art

On October 30, 2020, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least Claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,294,428. The patent is owned by KinectUs LLC. The '428 patent generally relates to a system and method for establishing a communication between mobile device users that register with a collaboration system, which determines a match between profile data of the first registered mobile device and profile data of the second registered mobile device. It is currently being asserted against Bumble Trading, LLC.

The contest will expire on December 15, 2020. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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Traindex Prior Art Report
InQuartik Semantic Prior Art