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 the patent. 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.
Contest & Winning Submissions
Kriss Vickers and Andrei Gilya shared a $3,000 award for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 8,379,538, owned and asserted by Valtrus Innovations Ltd., an entity of New PP Licensing LLC. The '538 patent describes using a machine-readable monitoring model to store and maintain the configuration of a monitoring environment. A monitoring element reads that model and automatically adjusts how it operates based on the defined configuration. The patent had been asserted against SAP America and both Starbucks and Google have filed declaratory judgment actions against the patent.
WINNING PATENT SUBMISSIONS
Find more information on CNCF and the prior art challenges within the links below:
