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[FYI] BountyQuest: Holger Blasum awarded USD 10.000,-- for uncovering prior art



http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999708

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Patent victim  

A company that pays people to poke holes in patents is about to claim 
its first biotech victim  

A company that pays people to poke holes in patents says it is about 
to claim its first biotech victim.  

BountyQuest gave Holger Blasum, a computer science graduate student 
at the University of Munich, a $10,000 award for digging up research 
papers from 1993 and 1994 issues of Nucleic Acids Research.  

[...]

1200 GMT, 8 May 2001  

Philip Cohen  

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