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IP Edge entity Bassfield IP image processing patent prior art found

Unified is pleased to announce prior art has been found on 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 had been asserted against several such as PayPal, Target, Applebees, and Starbucks.

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