$3,000 awarded for Ollnova '371 prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Ron Penaflor, who split a cash prize of $3,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 8,264,371, owned by Ollnova Technologies Limited, an NPE and Magnetar Capital subsidiary. The '371 patent relates to communicating change-of-value information in a building automation system and had been asserted against Google, Ecobee, Carrier Global, and Resideo.
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 SUBMISSION
“Integrating Building Automation Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks” (“Osterlind”)