PATROLL

M4siz search protocol patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 6,526,402, owned by M4siz, LTD, an NPE. The '402 patent generally relates to a searching procedure, particularly for searching on the Internet, using a search engine associated with a database where the user submits a request string comprising a locator (or URL) for the search engine and a search string including at least one search term. This patent has been asserted against most major retailers such as Macy’s, Walmart, Wayfair, Sears, Petsmart, HEB, Kroger, Pottery Barn, and Aldi.

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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IP Edge entity Bassfield IP image processing patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on U.S. Patent 6,641,053, owned and asserted by Bassfield IP, an NPE and entity of IP Edge. The ‘053 patent generally relates to an image processing apparatus for encoding and decoding a document containing machine-readable code overlaid by human-readable content. It had been asserted against several such as PayPal, Target, Applebees, and Starbucks.

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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$2,000 awarded for IP Investment entity, Alto Dynamics, activity monitoring patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who was awarded $2,000 for her prior art submission on U.S. Patent 7,392,160, owned by Alto Dynamics, LLC, an IP Investment Group subsidiary. The patent generally relates to the monitoring, recording, and analysis of user activity and has been asserted against Redfin Corp., Wayfair, Stockx, and others.

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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$3,000 awarded for IP Investment entity, Alto Dynamics, authentication patents prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who was awarded $3,000 for her prior art submissions on two patents, U.S. Patent 7,657,531 and U.S. Patent 8,051,098, owned by Alto Dynamics, LLC, an IP Investment Group subsidiary. The patents generally relate to state-less authentication and have been asserted against Redfin Corp., Wayfair, Stockx, and others.

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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$1,500 awarded for IP Edge entity AdaptFlow Technologies video data patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who was awarded $1,500 for her prior art submission on U.S. Patent 9,838,757, owned by AdaptFlow Technologies LLC, an NPE and IP Edge entity. The ‘757 patent generally relates to a method for transmitting video data in a data stream and was asserted against Roku.

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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