$2,000 awarded for Vilox search engine patent prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Dinesh Swami and Ekta Aswal, who split a $2,000 award for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 6,760,720, owned by Vilox Technologies LLC, a Texas-based NPE managed by inventor Joseph De Bellis. The ‘720 patent relates to a method and system for a dynamic search engine that facilitates search-on-the-fly/sort-on-the-fly capabilities. The invention is about enhancing search and data display techniques, particularly on various devices including handhelds, phones, GPS devices, and computers. The patent has been asserted against Salesforce and Oracle.
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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