$1,000 Awarded for Ortiz & Associates prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ekta Aswal, who received a cash prize of $1,000 for prior art submitted on U.S. Patent 9,549,285. The '285 patent, titled "systems, methods and apparatuses for brokering data between wireless devices, servers and data rendering devices," generally relates to streaming media. The patent is owned by and asserted by Ortiz & Associates, LLC, an NPE.

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. 9,549,285 ("Ortiz") which was filed on October 21,2015 and claims a June 27, 2000 priority date is directed to a system for mediating data exchangebetween wireless devices, servers, and data rendering devices, wherein the data renderingdevices have a user interface for receiving passcodes. U.S. Patent No.