$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.