$2,000 awarded for Payvox e-commerce patent prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Andrei Gilya, Mani Manikandan, Ritu Tyagi, and Ramesh Varadharaj, who split a cash award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,788,360, owned by Payvox LLC, an NPE. The ‘360 patent relates to wireless commerce systems. More particularly, the invention involves a point of advertising wireless commerce system to enable pervasive commerce with mass media publications. The ‘360 patent has been asserted against Mastercard, Apple, Samsung, Sony, Visa, and HMD America.
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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