$1,000 awarded for inventor-owned, Jaffe '828, image patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal, Mani Manikandan, and Ritu Tyagi, who split an award of $1,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 6,757,828, owned by inventor, Jonathan E. Jaffe. The ‘828 patent relates to an improved method and system for authenticating images captured by digital cameras. The patent has been asserted against Adobe and TruePic.

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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