Bounty set for invalidating Lodsys patents
 

Lodsys, a group that's targeted companies big and small for infringing on its patents, is now in the crosshairs of a company offering to pay a bounty for research that seeks to invalidate those patents.

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Article One Partners, a business that crowdsources intellectual property (IP) research, has launched three new studies into patents held by Lodsys (1,2,3). Each offers a reward to the party that finds prior art, or examples of pre-existing technologies or other IP that could be used as evidence to invalidate one or more of Lodsys' patents.

Article One Partners became involved in a similar crowdsourced hunt last month on a patent held by MacroSolve, a Montreal-based entity that--like Lodsys--began suing mobile appl makers back in April. That effort offered $5,000 to the winners, whereas this has the potential to bring in $15,000 total across all three of the studies.

Lodsys CEO Mark Small declined to comment.

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