$1,400 Awarded for Contemporary Display '398 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Sarasija Padmanabhan and Raghu Ram, who split the winning cash prize of $1,400 for prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 6,445,398. The ‘398 patent, generally directed to generating and displaying TV guide systems, is owned by Contemporary Display, LLC, an IP Valuation Partners entity and well-known 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 SUBMISSION

The patent-at-issue, U.S. Patent No. 6,445,398 ("Gerba"), which was filed on June 24,1998 and claims a February 4, 1998 priority date, is directed to a method for presentingtelevision program schedule data on a television display comprising a plurality of data cellsidentifying the schedule data. Gerba et al.