Project Jengo Celebrates One Year Anniversary by Releasing Prior Art

Today marks the one year anniversary of Project Jengo, a crowdsourced search for prior art funded by Cloudflare to combat patent trolls like Blackbird Technologies. The project has been successful in collecting hundreds of prior art submissions that read across much of Blackbird's patent portfolio. In response to Blackbird's lawsuit against Cloudflare, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled the '335 Patent was too abstract to be valid and granted Cloudflare’s Motion to Dismiss. However, Blackbird recently appealed this ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Additionally, Project Jengo has challenged other patents in the Blackbird portfolio and submitted an ex parte reexamination request for U.S. Patent 7,797,448 ("GPS-internet Linkage"). The project plans to distribute more than $40,000 in bounty awards before it is completed.