SPARKIP GROWTH ACCELERATES WITH NEW MARKETPLACE PARTICIPANTS

Corporations, Universities and Research Labs Now Able to Post Technologies at No Charge

ATLANTA October 14, 2008 - SparkIP, an online intellectual property (IP) research and marketplace platform, today announced the addition of over 2,000 marketplace technologies from eight new organizations. SparkIP also announced today that corporations, universities and government labs can post available technologies to the SparkIP marketplace for free, without transaction fees or other charges. Future technology postings are available to the SparkIP subscriber network for the first 90 days and then subsequently available to anyone visiting www.sparkip.com.

Today's new marketplace participants include National University of Ireland, Maynouth; Auburn University; France Transfert Technologies; the Texas A&M University System; University of California, Davis; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Colorado and University of South Carolina.

"Since we are now offering free posting of technologies, we expect many more companies, universities and research labs to take advantage of the SparkIP marketplace in the coming months," said Ed Trimble, SparkIP chief executive officer. "We are proud to welcome all these innovative, forward-thinking organizations to the SparkIP marketplace. It's very exciting and gratifying to witness corporations discovering new licensing or acquisition opportunities at SparkIP. The more participants we have, the more everyone benefits."

SparkIP offers subscriptions to corporations, universities, government labs and law firms to support a variety of IP research tasks including patent analytics, white space analysis, R&D planning, freedom to operate searches, competitive intelligence, and technology scouting. Through the SparkIP unique visualization technology, researchers can move from text-based searches to contextual analysis, discovering non-obvious results often missed with other tools.

About SparkIP

SparkIP is the world's leading intellectual property research and marketplace platform with over 50 million patent documents and over 10,000 available technologies, all organized in an interactive visual landscape of more than 70,000 SparkClustersTM. The private, Atlanta-based company was founded in October 2007 by engineering leaders Kristina M. Johnson, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at Johns Hopkins, Rob Clark, Dean of School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) at University of Rochester, and Tim Lenoir, Kimberly Jenkins Chair in New Technology and Society at Duke University. The SparkIP team is led by Ed Trimble, former founder and CEO of EzGov, Inc.

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