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 |
| 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. (AOP) is a venture-funded online prior art search community based in New York City, New York. AOP provides crowdsourced prior-art-search services by utilizing an online research community. The company's President stated that, as of June 30, 2016, AOP comprises "more than 37,000 in over 170 countries."
Since launching in late 2008, AOP states that, as of October 2016, it has rewarded more than US$7,487,672 to its researchers.
AOP was founded in November 2008 by attorney Cheryl Milone. It was backed by venture capital firms Alleghany Capital Corporation,General Catalyst Partners, and the former head of intellectual property policy and strategy at Microsoft Marshall Phelps, with investments totaling $15 million by January 2013.
In October 2013, Phelps was announced as the new Chief Executive Officer of AOP.
In April 2016, the company announced that it had surpassed the $7-million mark in researcher rewards. During the same month, it announced the appointment of Tom Shambo to the role of senior vice president of sales and marketing; Shambo is a former employee of RenewData Corporation and Banyan Systems, among other companies. In late-October 2016, the company stated that it had completed 178 Public Studies and 383 Private Studies for the year so far.
To conduct its intellectual-property research projects, referred to as "Studies," AOP posts the project requirements and descriptions online as a request for the "crowd" of researchers to submit relevant research submissions. Researchers are required to "make at least one submission that matches the requirements of the Study," and rewards are dispensed to the selected "top responses" when the Study is closed. The patent-research Studies of AOP include patent infringement cases, and the company performs both "Private" and "Public" Studies.
The company charges a one-time fee or an annual membership to corporate clients. Rewards of up to $6,500 are posted for each Study and are paid to researchers based on the quality of their submissions.
AOP Connect is a dashboard technology that includes a complete corpus of a client’s past work, whereby the research references are not perishable.
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