$3,000 awarded for Ollnova '887 smart home patent prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ketan Sachdeva and Dinesh Swamy, who split a cash prize of $3,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 7,746,887, owned by Ollnova Technologies Limited, an NPE and Magnetar Capital subsidiary. The '887 patent relates to a wireless automation device monitors a condition and wirelessly reports an event over an automation network in response to detecting a change in the condition and had been asserted against Ecobee, Carrier Global, Emerson, 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.
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