[February 21, 2008]

SparkIP February Index Identifies New Technologies and Innovations

ATLANTA --(Business Wire)-- SparkIP, an online intellectual property (IP) network for the scientific community, today announces the second edition of the SparkIP Index, a monthly report highlighting new SparkClusters(TM), SparkSearch terms, and innovative technologies listed on the site's marketplace.

The Index was created and launched in January 2008, to provide a snapshot of emerging trends in the scientific community and provide researchers insight into today's marketplace. With today's new data, the total number of licensable technologies reached more than 5,700 fully searchable listings from leading universities and research institutions.

The February 2008 SparkIP Index highlights the following search terms, clusters and new technologies:


    SparkSearch Terms     SparkClusters(TM) New Technologies
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NEEDLELESS HYPODERMIC INJECTION  PANCREATIC ISLET Novel Methods To
                  CELLS       Produce Large
                           Proteins For
                           Gene Therapy
                          University of
                           Pittsburgh
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ALUMINUM OXIDE NANOPARTICLE    OLED DISPLAY   Limiting
                           Acrylamide in
                           Heated Starchy
                           Foods
                          Children's
                           Hospital Of
                           Boston
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PLANT-PARASITIC NEMATODES     TREATING COLON  Medical CAD /
                  CANCER      Colonagraphy:
                           Automated
                           Differentiation
                           Between Pre-
                           Cancerous
                           Colonic Polyps
                           and Normal
                           Tissue
                          Stanford
                           University
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TREATMENT OF LUNG CANCER      INSTANT VOICE   Aberrantly
                  MESSAGE      Methylated Genes
                           as Markers of
                           Breast
                           Malignancy in
                           Ductal Fluids
                          Johns Hopkins
                           University
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CACHE COHERENCY          HUMAN CHEMOTACTIC A Quantitative,
                  CYTOKINE     High-Throughput
                           Screening Method
                           for Protein
                           Stability
                          Duke University
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In addition to today's Index data, SparkIP is announcing the addition of two new partners who are utilizing the IP marketplace to post new developments and licensable technologies: The University of Pittsburgh and Children's Hospital of Boston.

About the SparkIP Index

SparkIP's monthly index highlights emerging trends on the following:

-- SparkClusters(TM), self-categorizing and self-naming contextualized information, are SparkIP's proprietary groupings of patents and new innovation. As of February 2008, there are 40,000 SparkClusters(TM) on the site.

-- SparkSearch terms are crucial to the scientific and corporate communities, illustrating what people are examining for future research and development opportunities.

-- 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.

To experience SparkIP or to find more information on the company, please visit www.SparkIP.com or www.facebook.com/pages/SparkIP/8335243142.

About SparkIP

SparkIP is the leading online intellectual property network with more than 3.5 million patents and 5,700 actively managed licensable technologies, all represented within a visual innovation landscape of more than 40,000 SparkClusters(TM). 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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