Article One Partners
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| Private | |
| Industry | Prior art search Crowdsourcing |
| Founded | November, 2008 |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York |
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Key people
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Marshall Phelps, CEO Cheryl Milone, Founder and Chairwoman Paul DiGiammarino, President Peter Vanderheyden, CPO Rick Schwartz, COO[1] |
| Products | Patent research services |
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Number of employees
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15-30 |
| Website | Articleonepartners.com |
Article One Partners, L.L.C. is a venture-funded online prior art search community based in New York City, New York.[2][3]
Contents
History
Article One Partners (AOP) was founded in November 2008 by attorney Cheryl Milone.[4] It was backed by venture capital firms Alleghany Capital Corporation[5] and General Catalyst Partners, with initial investments totalling $8 million.[3] In 2009, Article One Partners won the Silicon Valley Startup of the year. In 2013, Marshall Phelps became Chief Executive Officer.[6]
Since launching in late 2008, AOP has conducted over 1,500 research projects and rewarded more than $5.8 million to its international researcher community.
Products and services
Article One Partners provides crowdsourced prior art search services by utilizing an online research community.
To conduct the research projects, referred to as "Studies," AOP posts project requirements and descriptions online as a request for the crowd of researchers to submit relevant research submissions. [7] The Studies are mainly based around ongoing patent infringement cases, and the requests call for information that can invalidate the patents.
Rewards of up to $6,500 are posted for each Study and are paid to researchers based on the quality of their submissions.[8][9]
Past public studies
NTP, Inc.
In December 2010, Article One Partners launched community examination of 3 patents owned by non-practicing entity, NTP Inc.[10] The patents in question were central to the ongoing patent infringement suits filed by NTP against Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG, and Motorola.[11][12] The patent review studies were launched with rewards of $10,000 going to researchers who present the most relevant evidence around mobile email technologies.[10]
Interval licensing
In March 2011, Article One Partners launched community examination of patents owned by Interval Research Corporation, a non-practicing entity co-founded by Paul Allen and David Liddle. The patents were the subject of a lawsuit filed by Interval Research Corp. against defendants Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, AOL, eBay, Netflix, OfficeMax, and Staples.[13] In the lawsuit, Interval Research Corp. asserted that the defendants used technology on their websites that was originally created by a company owned by Allen.[14]
Mobile application developers
In June 2011, Article One Partners launched community examination of a patent owned by Macrosolve. The patent is central to Macrosolve's patent infringement claims against 30 Mobile application development companies.[15] This examination was followed by another announcement that 3 studies were launched focusing on patents held by patent licensing company, Lodsys. These patents were involved in patent infringement claims against several application development companies, as well as larger companies including Sam's Club, Best Western, Adidas, Best Buy, and others.[16]
Other litigation
Although the company stresses the importance of client confidentiality,[13] the company launch in 2008 included the announcement of multiple high-profile cases. These cases included:
- Pfizer assertion against Teva Pharmaceutical Industries over a cholesterol medication.
- Research In Motion assertion against Motorola around wireless device technology.
- Konami Corporation assertion against Harmonix Music Systems, MTV Networks, and Viacom in the video game industry.[8][17]
See also
- Public participation in patent examination
- Internet as a source of prior art
- List of crowdsourcing projects
References
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