Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Angelo Luca, who received a cash prize of $1,500 for his prior art submission for U.S. Patent 9,805,349, owned by Rain Computing, Inc., an NPE. The '349 patent generally relates to methods and systems for delivering software packages to client terminals based on a subscription service by which a user is charged for specific applications that the user is subscribed to use and has been asserted in district court litigation. 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.