type private industry prior art search crowdsourcing founded november 2008 headquarters new york city new york key people marshall phelps ceo cheryl milone founder and chairwoman paul digiammarino president peter vanderheyden cpo rick schwartz coo 1 products patent research services number of employees 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 1 history 2 products and services 3 past public studies 3.1 ntp inc. 3.2 interval licensing 3.3 mobile application developers 3.4 other litigation 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit 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 edit 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 edit ntp inc. edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit 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 edit public participation in patent examination internet as a source of prior art list of crowdsourcing projects references edit article one team . article one partners . retrieved 2014 07 21 . galen moore 2010 04 19 . vcs bet on the spread of business crowdsourcing . american city business journals inc. retrieved 2011 02 16 . a b nick saint 2010 07 27 . startup 2009 winner article one partners raises 5 million . business insider inc. retrieved 2011 03 16 . internet firm to reward researchers for patent evidence . the washington times . 2008 11 24 . retrieved 2011 03 16 . allegany . 2014 . retrieved august 17 2014 . http www.worldipreview.com news aop announces new chief executive https www.articleonepartners.com research community become a researcher a b joelle tessler 2008 11 18 . online startup aims to improve patent quality . usa today . retrieved 2011 03 02 . asher hawkins 2008 12 18 . patent vigilantes . forbes.com llc . retrieved 2011 03 02 . a b grant gross 2010 12 09 . crowdsourcing group targets ntp mobile e mail patents . pc world . retrieved 2011 03 30 . rob pegoraro 2010 07 09 . ntp sues everybody over alleged wireless e mail patents . the washington post . retrieved 2011 03 30 . micheline tang 2010 07 09 . ntp sues apple google htc lg microsoft and motorola for infringement of wireless email patents . pr newswire . retrieved 2011 03 30 . a b michael hickins 2011 03 02 . paul allen s foes hope for help from the crowd . the wall street journal . retrieved 2011 03 17 . dionne searcey 2010 08 28 . microsoft co founder launches patent war . the wall street journal . archived from the original on 31 march 2011 . retrieved 2011 03 17 . alison frankel 2011 06 07 . no app for that trolls launch suits against 47 app developers . thomson reuters . retrieved 2011 06 27 . josh lowensohn 2011 06 15 . scoop bounty set for invalidating lodsys patents . cnet . retrieved 2011 06 27 . article one partners strengthens global automaker patent claims . redorbit . 2010 04 12 . retrieved 2011 03 12 . external links edit official website 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