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Behind The Money: Article One Partners brings crowdsourcing to patent validation

Published November 18, 2008 at 2:51 PM


Following in the footsteps of Peer-to-Patent, a Web site run by New York Law School that encourages people to vet pending patents, a new company called Article One Partners offers an online community to test the validity of approved patents. Article One, which is launching this week, pays contributors up to $50,000 if they provide evidence that invalidates a patent.

In our Behind the Money video interview, patent attorney Cheryl Milone (pictured), the founder and CEO of Article One Partners, explains how the Web site works, how it will make money and how entrepreneurs can protect their intellectual property in this "age of open-source ideas," as AdaptiveBlue founder Alex Iskold put it in a recent blog post on the frustrations of the patent process. -- Mary Kathleen Flynn

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See Sept. 28 post on patents from Alex Iskold's blog
See Oct. 9 video interview with patent attorney Frank Bruno

 

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