Featured Winner 1

Jesse Frumkin

"AOP provides me with flexibility, room for creativity and strong financial rewards. I am able to research on my own terms and learn about new industries. While there are other crowdsourcing opportunities out there, AOP is different because it challenges me and financially rewards me more than other crowdsourcing platforms."

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Featured winner 2

Stacey Anderson-Redick

"Beyond the financial awards and total control of my career, AOP allows me to work from home and take care of my two children. I have incredible flexibility with my career and a dream job that challenges me intellectually every day." - Full Interview

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Featured winner 3

Michael O’Keeffe (Riskmentor)

"To succeed in solving an AOP patent prior art Study requires knowledge of the technology, an understanding of patents and a lot of determination to track down key references, but an ounce of inspiration or 'I-saw-that-somewhere-before' goes a long way..." - Full Interview

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Featured winner 4

livmarsh

"My training and work experience from the USPTO has been invaluable as a patent researcher. In my work, my clients appreciate my desire to ensure their intellectual property is novel and patentable." - Full Interview

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Featured winner 5

Ramesh L. Shahabadkar

Ramesh has been working with IT professionals and searching for documents for more than a decade. He was attracted to AOP because of the “good amount of technology information on the Article One website and the monetary reward.” Currently, Ramesh lives and works in Oman for the Ministry of Education...

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Featured winner 6

Glen Kotapish (clause8)

"In any search, I look at it in a novelty sense and then get narrower and more specific with the claims. The exact process depends on technology and what results I see initially. Traditional classification searching is important. I usually start with broad searches and then narrow them, but not always..."

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Featured winner 7

Minerva Rivero (engr009)

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