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Crowdsourcing Site Offers Rewards To Bust Patents 96

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @01:50PM from the here-you-get-valuable-mod-points dept.

holy_calamity writes "Article One Partners is a new startup that offers $50,000 rewards to people that find prior art for certain valuable patents. The company's founder told New Scientist she thought the initiative would improve 'patent quality' by increasing scrutiny on poor patents. She aims to profit by selling the information contributors collect, or trade stocks based on it. Current patents they are looking for help to bust include those being used by Konami to sue Harmonix over Rock Band and Guitar Hero."

Comment Re:Letter from Engadget, 8/21/07 (Score 1) 305

by jsmusgrave on Saturday June 28, 2008 @09:06PM (#23986465) Attached to: What Happened To Palm?

And by listening to Engagdet's small minded criticism of the Foleo, Palm missed out on the huge market for small linux based PCs like the eeepc. We could be thinking calling them Foleos instead of eee clones.

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