$2,000 awarded for Songbird Tech audio patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Mani Manikandan and Ekta Aswal, who split a cash award of $2,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,825,787, owned by Songbird Tech, LLC, an NPE. The ‘787 patent relates to an audio message-driven customer interaction queuing system for any public web page to allow web page visitors to utter questions into a browser-resident recorder application. It had been asserted against Samsung.

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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