$4,000 awarded for Intellectual Ventures networking patents prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Dinesh Swami, sharing a cash prize of $4,000 for their submissions on the patents below. The patents are owned by Intellectual Ventures LLC, an NPE, and have been asserted against JP Morgan Chase.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. 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.
US 7280998 - Virtual Data Warehousing
Winning Submission: US 20020038308; US 6671689
US 7314167 - Secure Transactions
Winning Submission: US 20050071283; US 7207477