Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Rajesh Singh and Rahul Vijh, who split the winning cash prize of $1,400 for prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,092,993. The '993 patent, generally directed to a method and system for customizing e-mail transmissions based on content detection, is owned by E-Attach LLC and has been asserted in district court.

To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

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WINNING SUBMISSIONS

US 7,092,993 The '993 patent ("Goldberg") (filed on February 3, 2002 with a claim for an earlier priority datefrom a continuation in part application filed on March 20, 2001), discloses a method and systemfor checking customization settings (e.g., attaching a file or adding an individual as a CC) inemail messages based on content detection and subsequently alerting the user to customize theemail if they have not done so.