On October 6, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of 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 has been asserted against several such as PayPal, Target, Applebees, and Starbucks.
The contest will expire on December 16, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.