$2,000 awarded for Emerald Lake Hills operational management patent prior art
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Dinesh Swami, Ekta Aswal, and Mani Manikandan, who split an award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 11,636,413, owned by Emerald Lake Hills, LLC, an NPE. The ‘413 patent relates to the virtual operational management of discrete attributes between multiple commercial goods or service transacting entities for the purpose of significantly enhancing business operating performance. The patent had been asserted against Amazon, Cloudera, Arista Networks, and Shopify.
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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