GAWminer cannot touch PayCoin, they have to buy them out.
Read it and weep:
Prior art or background art, in most systems of patent law [or trademarks] constitutes all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality. If an invention has been described in the prior art, a patent on that invention is NOT valid.
GAWminers, you can have my PayCoins at 377,777 Satoshi.