Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Nisha Devi and Calvin Zhong, who shared a cash reward of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,849,707, asserted by Querytron Heggem LLC, an NPE and entity of Eric Zautner. The ‘707 patent relates generally to search engines and, more specifically, to methods for business-oriented search. It has been asserted against Alibaba, Fiverr, and Redfin Corp.
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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