Posts Tagged: crowd sourcing
How the U.S. Can Inspire the Next Generation of Innovators
An unfounded belief persists that entrepreneurs are the primary innovators. However, in a study of the top 30 innovations of the last 30 years up through 2009, as judged by …
‘Uber-izing’ the IP Function
Welcome to the brave new corporate IP function of tomorrow, one that’s been “Uber-ized” to tap into powerful on-demand networks of patent, technical, and market expertise …
Senator Coons introduces Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Act of 2015
Earlier today U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) introduced legislation to encourage and increase the use of crowdsourcing and citizen science within the federal government. The purpose …
How to Know When You’re Ready to File a Nonprovisional Patent Application
Holding a provisional patent application pending, but failing to file a nonprovisional patent application by the one year deadline, means you lose the right to that filing …
The Enforcement of Bad Patents is the Problem
Right now the best business to be in at the moment is the patent enforcement business, at least if you are concerning yourself with low-risk monetization with …
Does Crowdsourcing Produce Better Patent Search Results?
Today there is a different solution for those who need to find that particularly illusive non-patent literature that typically makes up the best, most damaging prior art. …
Article One Partners Reaches $3 Million Paid to Patent Research Community
AOP, the world’s largest patent research community, has passed another significant milestone. This time the company has passed the $3 million threshold in financial rewards paid to …
Prior Art Hunting: Signal Processing, Lithium Batteries and more
Article One Partners has just reached the $3 million milestone, having given out over $3 million to its cadre of researchers. Currently the total sum awarded by Article One …
Sony Announces Partnership with Article One to Fight NPEs
Article One Partners, or AOP for short, is the world’s largest patent research community. Yesterday the company announced a partnership with Sony Corporation. AOP is supporting …
Mobile App Developers Gain Ally to Fight Patent Infringement
As a result of this announcement today, AOP will help Appsterdam accomplish the organizations mandate of supporting ongoing innovation and business success in the mobile app development …
Revolutionizing Prior Art Research: How Crowdsourcing Could Save the Angry Birds
The question may arise – what if the result of crowdsourcing is less than the proverbial "smoking gun," can it place the App Developers at a disadvantage in …
Wanted: Prior Art to Invalidate Lodsys Patents
Article One Partners is at it again, this time with four patents in the cross-hairs owned by the company suing Apple App Developers for patent infringement — Lodsys. …
Funding Your Invention: Get Started with Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding addresses the two biggest challenges many inventors have. “What is the market for my product?” and “How do I get initial funds to produce it?” Conventional …
Show Me the Money! Article One Reaches $1 Million Milestone
On Monday, March 7, 2011, Article One Partners announced that it had surpassed the $1 Million milestone and has now distributed over $1 million in reward money to Advisors. It would …
Interview: Erik Iverson of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Erik Iverson is Associate General Counsel with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, working exclusively with Foundation's Global Health initiate. Mr. Iverson works with grantees in the development …
