Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, James Busch, who received a cash prize of $1,500 for his prior art submission for US 8,472,792. The patent is owned by DivX, LLC, a subsidiary of well-known NPE, Fortress Investment Group. The '792 patent relates to encoding and decoding multimedia files having at least one video track and at least one audio track and had been asserted against Netflix and Hulu in district court.
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.