Unified Patents and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) are pleased to announce the winning prior art submissions in the Cloud Native Heroes Challenge, a patent troll bounty program. The results of this contest demonstrate the benefits of engaging open source developers and technologists with domain expertise in the fight against patent trolls.
We would like to thank the dozens of high-quality submissions that were made on these patents. The ongoing contests are open to anyone and offer 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.
Contests & Winning Submissions
U.S. Patent 7,681,177 is owned and asserted by Lower48 IP, LLC, an NPE. The ‘177 patent relates to a method and system for transforming data between hierarchical structures, notably trees and symbol strings, aiming to simplify manipulation of complex hierarchical data. The patent has been asserted against Shopify.
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“Compact Encodings of Planar Graphs via Canonical Orderings and Multiple Parentheses” (“Chuang”)
“Succinct Representation of Balanced Parentheses and Static Trees” (“Munro”)
U.S. Patent 11,100,070 is owned and asserted by Lower48 IP, LLC, an NPE. The ‘070 patent focuses on methods and systems for manipulating and analyzing hierarchical data, particularly through transformations into tree structures. The patent has been asserted against Shopify. Ketan Sachdeva was awarded $3,000 for his prior art submission against the ‘070 patent.
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