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This is good news for app developers as crowdsourcing company looks to kill app patents with $5,000 bounty.
Microsoft, no stranger to patent litigation, has joined a new service that uses crowdsourcing to find information that could deem patents invalid, helping the company fight patent trolls.
Worldwide filings of patent applications and the ensuing invalidation requests have seen staggering growth over the last decade. The result is increasing patent backlog, deteriorating patent...
The “invention” in this case appears to be a species of software and business method patents. Critics say such patents, which began proliferating in the 1990’s, should be ineligible for protection...
Article One is a global community of researchers who find key evidence that increases patent quality and resolves litigation.They help companies being targeted for attack by seeking to invalidate...
Crowdsourcing platform promises to be a valuable tool for technology companies coming under pressure to protect their patents.
Crowdsourcing is an effective technique that can help separate the prior art procedure from the patent grant process. In this quest, public-private partnerships between patent offices and online...
TopCoder, Inc., a provider of online programming competitions, announced that it is working with the USPTO to launch a contest to draw software developers from around the world to to develop new...
“In the past twenty years, the issue of intellectual property has gone from being a gentleman’s game to a battlefield,” says Taavi Raidma, CEO and founder of crowdsourcing platform CrowdIPR ....
At most, the crowdsourcing solution will increase–at someone’s expense–the quality of prior art examined for existing patents. This will reduce the number of “bad” patents, but will increase the...
“By accessing our global research community, our clients have higher confidence that they have performed blue chip patent research to look for that haystack-hidden needle,” says Cheryl Milone,...
Starting today, the website Stack Exchange will run a channel devoted to patents on which the public can help scrutinize pending application. The move serves to crowdsource the arduous task of...
Allscripts, a leading U.S.-based healthcare firm, announced an open app challenge, offering cash prizes for crowdsourcing improvements in their EHR program as part of an effort to bypass patents...
AOP's new FlashSource and ExpertSource will enable small businesses to access AOP's 27,000-strong community of researchers in more than 160 countries at a much lower cost than...
Litigation Avoidance focuses on pre-emptive action around specific patents identified pre-litigation. By collecting more relevant information about prior art, Litigation Avoidance can make the...
It would be useful to have a discussion about what tools are needed to truly crowdsource the patent analysis process, from beginning to end. Locating prior art is only the first step. Methods to...
Google is attempting to make its mobile approach to search more application like to provide a more useful and engaging interface for smartphone users, which makes sense especially in light of...
Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world. Every week, tens of thousands of amazing people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music,...
As a crowdsourcer it doesn't seem like a bad deal either. CrowdIPR seems to be a great way for technology professionals to make a little extra money on the side by pulling from their...
Few image processing problems can be solved reliably today, but image processing experts think this particular problem is sufficiently well definedto reap the benefits of crowdsourcing, which has a...
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