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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Article One asserts prior art on Worlds.com patent]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/06/08/article-one-asserts-prior-art-on-worlds-com-patent/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/06/08/article-one-asserts-prior-art-on-worlds-com-patent/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/06/08/article-one-asserts-prior-art-on-worlds-com-patent/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/legal/" rel="tag">Legal</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/virtual-worlds/" rel="tag">Virtual worlds</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2009/06/tan-gdc09-legal-pitfalls-580.jpg" /><br /></p>
<p>Article One Partners, "a global community that rewards members for discovering patent validity evidence to legitimize US patents", has <a href="http://www.articleonepartners.com/winnerDetails.php?id=32" rel="nofollow">announced that they have turned up prior-art</a> that <em>may</em> (or may not) be useful in overturning the <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/worlds.com-vs-ncsoft/">Worlds.com US Patent 7,181,690</a>.</p>
<p>It's difficult to judge on its merits. Article One receives revenue by on-selling that information to interested parties. We're not sure how much for, but the prize paid for locating the information is US$50,000, so we're expecting that the cost of seeing the inforomation is considerably more than that.</p><p><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/06/08/article-one-asserts-prior-art-on-worlds-com-patent/" rel="bookmark">Continue reading <em>Article One asserts prior art on Worlds.com patent</em></a></p><p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/06/08/article-one-asserts-prior-art-on-worlds-com-patent/">Article One asserts prior art on Worlds.com patent</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/06/08/article-one-asserts-prior-art-on-worlds-com-patent/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/19060580/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2009/06/08/article-one-asserts-prior-art-on-worlds-com-patent/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>article-one-partners</category><category>legal</category><category>ncsoft</category><category>patent</category><category>virtual-worlds</category><category>worlds.com</category><category>worlds.com-vs-ncsoft</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tateru Nino]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
