$1,000 Awarded for Ortiz & Associates '299 prior art

Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Shalini Bansal and Rajesh Singh, who split a cash prize of $1,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 9,147,299. The '299 patent generally relates to streaming media. The patent is owned by Ortiz & Associates, LLC, and is currently being asserted in U.S. district court against Roku, Panasonic, Microsoft, and Hisense.

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

Claim 1 of the patent-at-issue, U.S. Patent No. 9,147,299 ("Ortiz"), which was filed onFebruary 26, 2013 and claims a June 27, 2000 priority date, is directed to a method ofbrokering video data between handheld wireless devices and rendering devices in the form of atleast one of a video monitor and multimedia projector for rendering of the video data at aselected rendering device.