Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 9,374,712, owned by owned by Secure NFC PTY. Ltd. The invention relates to the field of information technology security (ITS), and particularly, but not exclusively, to a multi-issuer architecture to enable the coexistence of the Secure Element partitions allocated to each card issuer within NFC enabled devices such as mobile smart-phones. It has been asserted against Mastercard.

The contest will expire on March 8, 2024. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.