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Crowdsourcing Site Offers Rewards To Bust Patents

Posted by timothy on 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."

2 of 96 comments (clear)

  1. Make Money Fast by dattaway · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its the Prior Art Generator. Its only fair. They have infinite computers to generate infinite patents, but now you can hit reload until you win that $50,000:

    http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi

  2. Annoying Corporate Buzzwords by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    That's it! 'Crowdsourcing' just made the list!
    1. Synergy
    2. Paradigm
    3. Web 2.0
    4. SOA
    5. [some application] Killer
    6. Governance
    7. Cloud Computing
    8. Crowdsourcing