Talk:ArtistShare/Sandbox/Patent dispute (ArtistShare, under discussion)



Patent dispute (section to be included in ArtistShare, debate closed)

 * The following section is an archived draft discussed for a while on Talk:Brian Camelio. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page).  No further edits should be made to this page.

In February 2011, Camelio, the founder of ArtistShare, was granted U.S. patent 7,885,887, entitled "Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work", and is named as the inventor in the patent. On September 30, 2011, the crowdfunding site Kickstarter filed a request for declaratory judgment against ArtistShare Inc and Fan Funded LLC, because of alleged repeated allegations it had infringed the patent. KickStarter asked that the court invalidate the patent and find that Kickstarter does not infringe the patent. In February 2012, ArtistShare and Fan Funded responded to Kickstarter's complaint notably claiming that patent infringement litigation was never threatened, that "ArtistShare merely approached KickStarter about licensing their platform, including patent rights", and that "rather than responding to ArtistShare's request for a counter-proposal, Kickstarter filed this lawsuit." The judge has ruled, however, that the case can go forward. ArtistShare has responded by filing a counterclaim alleging that Kickstarter is indeed infringing its patent.