Prior Art found on SISVEL '123

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Candy Khemka, who received a cash prize of $2,000 for prior art submitted on U.S. Patent 8,490,123. The '123 patent generally relates to an invention that can "generate a user profile and recommendations on the basis of the user’s previously created playlists and properties derived from them." The patent is owned by SISVEL SPA, a well-known NPE, and has been asserted in district court litigation against Rhapsody and Spotify.

To help the industry fight bad patents, we have published the winning prior art below.

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.

WINNING SUBMISSIONS

The patent-at-issue, U.S. Patent No. 8,490,123 ("Sisvel"), which was filed on May 26,2004 and claims a June 3, 2003 priority date, is directed to "a method and device for generating auser profile on the basis of playlists, the user profile is generated on the basis of the user's ownplaylists and properties derived from them.