ATLANTA (January 16, 2008) – SparkIP, an online intellectual property (IP) network for the scientific community, today announces the creation of the SparkIP Index, a monthly report highlighting the top five SparkClustersTM, SparkSearch terms, and new innovative technologies found on the site. The Index will provide a snapshot of emerging trends in the scientific community and provide researchers insight into today's marketplace.

SparkIP is the world’s largest actively managed marketplace for top institutions, corporations and individual inventors. The site currently hosts more than 5,500 fully-searchable licensable technologies. The Index identifies the top SparkClustersTM, SparkSearch terms, and new technologies available for licensing.

o SparkClustersTM, self-categorizing and self-naming contextualized information, are SparkIP’s proprietary groupings of patents and new innovation. As of December 2007, there are 40,000 SparkClustersTM on the site.
o SparkSearch terms are crucial to the scientific and corporate communities, illustrating what people are examining for future research and development opportunities.
o The top new available technologies, listed on SparkIP's marketplace, emphasize new innovation available from contributing universities and research institutions across the U.S. and abroad, giving SparkIP users access to relevant intellectual property from leading inventors.

"Our SparkIP Index provides a snapshot of top-of-mind technologies and research relevant to the scientific community," says Ed Trimble, CEO of SparkIP. "It provides an easy way for researchers to make an immediate connection to key research and provides a gauge for what technologies are likely to make waves in the marketplace during the coming months.”

The premiere SparkIP Index highlights the following search terms, clusters and new technologies:

SparkSearch Terms SparkClustersTM New Technologies
Stem Cell Treating Bacterial Infections Composite materials for controlled release of water soluble products, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Biotechnology Fluorescent Discharge Lamp An improved dental abutment-prosthesis fastener, from the United States of America, Health & Human Services


RFID High-speed Laser Detection Digital Video Authenticator, from The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Apple Computer Plasma Display Panel Enhanced litter for indoor dogs: Pheromone-containing animal litter preparations, from Tufts University

Senescence Magnetic Navigation In-line multichannel microcentrifuge, from Stanford University


To experience SparkIP or to find more information on the company, please visit www.SparkIP.com
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About SparkIP
SparkIP is the leading online intellectual property network with more than 3.5 million patents and 5,500 actively managed licensable technologies, all represented within a visual innovation landscape of more than 40,000 SparkClustersTM. The site offers research tools, an IP marketplace for new technologies and a community where users and organizations can find each other and identify collaborative opportunities. 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 Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, 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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