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On December 27, 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 10,824,696. The patent is owned by RightQuestion, LLC, an NPE and entity of Bjorn Markus Jakobsson. The '696 patent generally relates to an authentication translation. The patent has been asserted against Samsung.
The contest will expire on February 28, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On December 27, 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 10,873,595. The patent is owned by SecurityProfiling, LLC, an NPE. The '595 patent relates to real-time vulnerability monitoring. The patent has been asserted against Cisco and Trend Micro.
The contest will expire on February 28, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On December 14, 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 11,012,720. The patent is owned by Rovi Guides, Inc., an NPE and subsidiary of Xperi Holding Corporation. The '720 patent generally relates to providing a buffer time prior to deletion of a media content item.
The contest will expire on March 31, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
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On December 10, 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 7,187,670. The patent is owned by Buffalo Patents, an NPE. The '670 patent generally relates to a communication terminal for Internet telephony. The patent is being asserted against ZTE, HTC, TCL, Coolpad Group, and OnePlus.
The contest will expire on March 31, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Preeti Dua, who received a cash prize of $2,000 for her prior art submission for 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.
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.
