$2,000 awarded for IP Investments Group entity, Advanced Transactions, email patent prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Umesh Sharma and Mani Manikandan, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 7,386,594, owned by Advanced Transactions LLC, an entity of IP Investments Group. The ‘594 patent relates to an email campaign generator that generates an email campaign template from an email target database. It has been asserted against Belk, Fiesta Mart, Advance Auto Parts, Regis Corp., Marco’s Pizza, The Gap, AutoZone, and Staples.
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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