$1,000 awarded for Key Patent Innovations entity Malikie Innovations video encoding patent prior art

Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Dinesh Swami, Ramesh Varadharaj, and Gaurav Dhawan, who split an award of $1,000 for their prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 9,179,147, owned by Malikie Innovations Limited, an entity of Key Patent Innovations Limited. The ‘147 patent relates to the use of soft decisions and iterative coding in Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and H.264 compliant video encoding. The patent has been asserted against ASUSTeK and Acer.

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.

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