Crowdsourcing Site Offers Rewards To Bust Patents

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 18, 2008 @05:50AM 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."

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Re:Great by alexj33 · 2008-11-18 05:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

This is a quantum first post. The very act of you looking at the top of the thread changed its state though, and now it is here.
I drink your Tranya. by hagardtroll · 2008-11-18 06:36 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I drink your Tranya. I drink it up!