$2,000 for Longhorn HD prior art

On August 12, 2021, 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 8,725,924. The patent is owned by Longhorn HD, LLC, an NPE. The '924 patent generally relates to an information backup system with a storing mechanism, a power supply, and a host microcontroller. It has been asserted against Kyocera, TCT Mobile International, OnePlus Technology, and Samsung.

The contest will expire on November 15, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$2,000 for Bluestone Ventures prior art

On July 21, 2021, 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 9,921,077. The patent is owned by Bluestone Ventures Inc., an NPE. The '077 patent generally relates to a method and system for enabling mobile devices to send location updates to a receiving device for use in vehicle dispatch applications. It is currently being asserted against Uber in the Western District of Texas.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$10,000 for prior art on all 5 patents asserted by Invincible IP, an IP Edge entity

On August 2, 2021, Unified Patents added five new PATROLL contests, with a combined prize winnings of $10,000 (each at $2,000), seeking prior art on all asserted patents by IP Edge entity, Invincible IP:

• U.S. Patent 8,938,634 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘634 patent relates to power savings in a datacenter. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, Nutanix, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 8,954,993 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘993 patent relates to locally processing queue requests. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 9,479,472 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘472 patent relates to locally processing queue requests. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 9,635,134 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘134 patent relates to cloud computing resource management. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, Nutanix, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

• U.S. Patent 9,678,774 - CONTEST PAGE Seeking prior art on at least claim 1, the ‘774 patent relates to secure migration of virtual machines. It has been asserted in district court against NetApp, Citrix, Nutanix, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba. Find more information on potential prior art from these 3rd party vendors: APEX Standards, Techson IP, Amplified, Traindex, InQuartik, IPscreener, Google NPL, Google Patents, Unified’s Prior Art.

All contests will end on October 31, 2021. Please contact info@unifiedpatents.com for any questions.

$3,000 for IP Edge subsidiary, Invincible IP, prior art

On July 21, 2021, 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 9,635,134. The patent is owned by Invincible IP, LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of IP Edge. The '134 patent generally relates to a method for managing resources in a cloud computing environment. It has been asserted against NetApp, DigitalOcean, Alibaba, Nutanix, and Citrix Systems.

The contest will expire on October 31, 2021. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.

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$1,125 Awarded for StratosAudio '081 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Mani Manikandan and Harsimran Dhaliwal, who split a cash prize of $1,125 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 8,166,081. The patent is owned by StratosAudio, an NPE. The '081 patent generally relates to media advertising and in particular to systems and methods for associating an advertising media signal with another media signal. It is currently being asserted against Volvo, Hyundai, Subaru, Volkswagen, and Mazda.

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

• US 8060407

• US 20070107010

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