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STERLING, VA – August 19, 2008 – Today Patents.com announced the beta launch of their global patent search site as part of a platform comprised of over 12 million searchable patent documents in 3 languages. In the coming months, the company will add 12 more languages and continue growing the number of patent and translated patent documents to over 450 million. Patents.com is a valued resource for scientists, engineers and patent professionals, providing them not only with data, but ultimately with a place to connect with other professionals and a place to buy, sell, license and service patents.

“Patents are currently a very large business – an estimated $500 billion in 2007. Patents.com aims to be a catalyst for accelerated global growth of the market for intellectual property. We will do this by simplifying key processes related to patent discovery, communication, and transactions. And we will do much of this free of charge, thereby making advanced global patent search accessible to all,” said Rob Monster, Co-Founder and Chairman of Patents.com.”

“Patents.com will be a valuable source for university researchers, patent lawyers, and garage inventors,” said Paul Ratcliffe, Co-Founder and CEO of Patents.com. “The site will be a ‘one stop shop’ for all IP needs from data and translation and ultimately to the licensing and sale of IP through a global patent exchange.”

Patents.com is launching a beta version of the site today which allows users to search for patents in English, Japanese and Korean. This includes data search and translation functionality. In the coming months features will be added to the site providing a platform for the IP community to connect, learn, and search in the user’s preferred language.

About Patents.com
Patents.com is building the most comprehensive worldwide source of patent data – to ultimately include 450 million searchable indexed patent pages available in 15 native languages. It is a source for both large and small companies, inventors and patent professionals to search, connect with like professionals through a hosted community platform enabling them to generate business opportunities, including the licensing and sale of intellectual property.

Media contact:
Jennifer Curley (202) 422-6244
Jennifer@curleycompany.com

April 2, 2008 – Bellevue, WA – freeIDENTITYprotect.com is now offering customers even more to protect against identity theft. The upgrade adds insurance, theft alerts and identity theft restoration to the already free services of freeIDENTITYprotect.com. The existing free services are still free.

“According to the Federal Trade Commission ¹, identity theft is on the rise – and people are rightly looking to protect themselves. We created an upgrade to www.freeidentityprotect.com to provide our customers the highest level of protection available,” said Jim Adler, CEO Demoxi, Inc., the parent company of www.freeidentityprotect.com. “For some customers freeIDENTITYprotect will take care of all their needs but for those customers who are at risk of identity theft or just want extra protection, this upgrade will provide that within the same easy to use site.”

The premium upgrade monitors the Internet black market for compromised personal information, and alerts the consumer if their personal information such as credit card and social security numbers are found. This will enable consumers to proactively take action and help prevent an identity thief from using their good credit. It also provides a $1 million service guarantee, $25,000 of identity theft insurance, and access to identity theft specialists to help consumers restore their good credit and name should an identity theft occur.

This service builds on www.freeidentityprotect.com, a free service which provides access to the leading protection services from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the Direct Marketing Association, and the National Credit Reporting Agencies. The service includes access to free credit reports from all three credit bureaus, credit bureau fraud alerts, credit card offer reduction, National Do-Not-Call List access and a junk email reduction service. Consumers are provided with step-by-step instructions, instructional videos, and alerts for obtaining their next free credit report and for re-registering for a fraud alert.

“Just as with freeIDENTITYprotect, we looked for the best available services to provide to our customers so they can easily get all the identity protection they need in one comprehensive site. The Premium upgrade adds the best insurance, fraud detection and credit restoration options available,” said Craig Muller, Vice President Identity Services for Demoxi, Inc. and freeIDENTITYprotect.

About freeIDENTITYprotect and Demoxi, Inc.

freeIDENTITYprotect is a comprehensive identity theft protection service provided by Demoxi, Inc. It is the only service to provide a comprehensive best-of-breed resource for consumers to proactively protect themselves from identity theft. Located in Bellevue, Washington, company leadership has well-over 2 decades of experience in the areas of identity services and Internet security technology. For more information please visit: www.freeidentityprotect.com or www.demoxi.com.

Media contact:

Jennifer Curley (202) 422-6244

Jennifer@curleycompany.com

¹ According to the Federal Trade Commission, nearly 10 million Americans became victims of identity theft last year— a 41 percent increase over the year before — making identity theft the fastest growing crime in the U.S.

PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IDNoptions, LLC (www.idnoptions.com), a leader in International Domain Name (IDN) acquisition, announced today an investment and strategic partnership with Monster Venture Partners (MVP), LLC and Domain Strategies, Inc. to expand and develop an industry-leading portfolio of IDNs and to build businesses on those domains.

Steven Epstein, CEO of IDNoptions, states that “the Internet and mobile community are on the brink of an immense eruption in China.” With nearly 1.4 billion people in China, Epstein predicts over 40% of the Internet’s content will be conducted in Chinese by 2011. Epstein’s company enables organizations to establish and expand their brands in Asia. His concept was confirmed by some of the world’s most respected Internet executives and China experts. His portfolio contains the Chinese equivalents of domains such as “greenbusiness.com, airlinereservations.com, and realestateloans.com.” There are over 2300 premium domains in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Arabic in the IDNoptions portfolio (www.idnoptions.com/blog/domains).

In October, 2006, browser technology made Internet search for non-native English speakers easy. Epstein asks the question, “If the Internet had been created in China, would you search for news using Chinese characters?” The use of IDNs has been widely implemented by the Chinese government, large Chinese Enterprises and Fortune 100 companies like Procter and Gamble, China (http://www.idnoptions.com/blog) and GE, China.

When Robert Monster, Founder and Chairman of Monster Venture Partners and Domain Strategies approached Epstein with the possibility to build companies with IDNs, Epstein embraced the idea. This was an outstanding opportunity to diversify and grow IDNoptions by globalizing the domain development model pioneered by Domain Strategies for major properties such as Healthcare.com, Patents.com and Alerts.com.

Monster emphasizes that “IDNoptions is in the right place at the right time. The partnership with Domain Strategies will allow these raw domains to evolve quickly into high value properties that can be of immense utility to Chinese Internet users by leveraging Domain Strategies’ proven ability to secure top content as well as deliver this content in local languages.” Concurrent with the financial investment by MVP, Monster has agreed to assume the role of Chairman of IDNoptions.

Patrick Pun, Executive Vice President for Asia-Pacific of MVP, also serves the IDNoptions team as Executive Vice President for Asia-Pacific. Pun says, “The timing is perfect for IDNoptions to build the bridge to link multinational firms and their products and services with the powerful Chinese market. Category-defining domains present a great competitive advantage for those organizations by having rapid access to diverse Chinese markets, in not only Mainland China but Hong Kong, Taiwan, and throughout the world.” Pun is based in Shanghai and will be running the Shanghai operations of IDNoptions.

IDNoptions, LLC

IDNoptions, LLC (www.idnoptions.com). Located in Phoenix, AZ with operations in Phoenix and Shanghai, IDNoptions holds over 2300 of the finest IDNs that it licenses with consultative services, sells, and develops into valuable businesses.

Domain Strategies, Inc.

Domain Strategies (www.domainstrategies.com) is a pioneering leader in the field of Internet domain development. The company partners with domain owners, visionary entrepreneurs and smart capital to unlock hidden value in high quality Internet domain names.

Monster Venture Partners, LLC

Monster Venture Partners (www.monsterventurepartners.com), based in Seattle, is a new breed of early-stage venture capital. MVPs investment philosophy is to engage in a genuine hands-on partnership with founders to jointly create value for all stakeholders.

“drugstore.com was a pioneer in health-related e-commerce, and is today one of the most recognizable brands on the web,” said Rob Monster, Chairman of HealthCare.com. “This partnership builds on that heritage. By incorporating HealthCare.com’s global directory of health care providers, drugstore.com’s users can not only shop for health-related products on the leading online drugstore, but also search for care using the world’s most complete database of care providers.”

“At drugstore.com we are always looking for new ways to provide service and convenience in addition to competitive prices,” said Arvin Marchel, RPh, Director of Pharmacy Services at drugstore.com. “We believe this medical provider search solution is a valuable benefit for our pharmacy and over-the-counter customers and is an important addition to services we already offer such as the Drug Information Database, Drug Interaction Checker and Ask Your Pharmacist.”

Consumers may find the new healthcare provider directory by linking from the drugstore.com pharmacy home page at http://www.drugstore.com/pharmacy or by going directly to http://www.drugstore.com/providersearch.

About HealthCare.com, Inc.

HealthCare.com, Inc. is a leading online health destination, providing health care content and tools that empower health seekers in their search for knowledge and care. The company’s consumer health offering is centered upon its web content portal, its health vertical search engine and its proprietary Care Provider Search. The Care Provider Search is the most comprehensive, complete and intelligent care provider directory on the web, which features over one million providers across the U.S. in over 120 categories, as well as providers in major medical tourism countries. For additional information, please visit http://www.healthcare.com.

About drugstore.com, inc.

drugstore.com, inc. (NASDAQ: DSCM) is a leading online provider of health, beauty, vision, and pharmacy products. Our portfolio of brands includes: drugstore.com™, Beauty.com™ and VisionDirect.com™. All are accessible from http://www.drugstore.com and provide a convenient, private, and informative shopping experience while offering a wide assortment of more than 30,000 products at competitive prices.

The drugstore.com pharmacy is certified by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) as a Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site (VIPPS) and operates in compliance with federal and state laws and regulations in the United States.

Contact:
Howard Yeh, VP, Corporate Development, Healthcare.com

305-371-9724 or howard@healthcare.com

Anne Marshall, Director of Public Relations, drugstore.com

425-372-3464 or amarshall@drugstore.com

Schrock, a former executive at RealNetworks and Yahoo! as well as a successful Seattle-based entrepreneur, will take an active role investing in and guiding portfolio companies through their growth and corporate development. He will identify promising companies focused on digital media, consumer Internet, mobile, as well as enterprise software. Schrock will be able to offer MVP portfolio companies the benefits of his considerable experience guiding companies through the startup lifecycle.

“I’ve been an entrepreneur, an investor, a corporate executive and a dealmaker.” said Mr. Schrock “This role leverages all of these experiences at an exciting time. I’m thrilled to be joining Rob, as a Venture partner, in his quest to expand the capital markets addressing the seed and early stage. There are many worthy companies in the Pacific Northwest, and around the world, which have been financially and strategically underserved. Without question, there is a large and growing gap between founding capital and traditional venture capital. MVP is filling that void using a combination of capital, process innovation and personal leadership.”

“Jeff brings deep industry knowledge and an active, hands-on approach to working with founders and management teams,” stated Rob Monster, Managing Director of MVP. “His experience, reputation and relationships will bring tremendous value to our portfolio companies throughout their development. Jeff, as a past entrepreneur himself, shares MVP’s founder-friendly approach to growing world class companies.”

Schrock will continue to periodically invest in seed stage and early stage opportunities alongside MVP’s own fund. Schrock currently serves on the boards of Transpera, funded by Intel Capital, IDG and FirstRound Capital, as well as LearnLive Technologies, based in Seattle. He will play an active board and advisory role in many MVP Portfolio companies as well as spearhead initiatives aimed to support the development of a vibrant startup community in Greater Seattle.

More About Jeff Schrock

Prior to joining Monster Venture Partners, Mr. Schrock was the Vice President of Corporate Development for RealNetworks. During his tenure, Real’s corporate development team executed multiple transactions including the $600 million joint venture between MTV Networks (Viacom) and Rhapsody as well as the $350 million acquisition of WiderThan. Mr. Schrock also led content licensing and distribution negotiations for RealNetwork’s consumer business.

Prior to joining Real, Schrock worked in corporate development for Yahoo! and also served as Vice President and General Manager of Yahoo! Broadcast following it’s acquisition of Broadcast.com.

Before joining Yahoo!, Mr. Schrock was an entrepreneur. He co-founded and served as CEO of Activate, from 1996 to 2001. Under his leadership, Activate was the second fastest growing private company in Washington state from 1998-2000. The company was financed by leading venture capitalists, including Madrona Venture Group, until it was sold to CMGI in 1999 for $100 Million.

About Monster Venture Partners

Monster Venture Partners is a new breed of early-stage venture capital firm based in Seattle. Our investment philosophy is to engage in a genuine hands-on partnership with founders to jointly create value for all stakeholders. For larger opportunities, we co-invest with leading investors from around the world, selecting from a universe of like-minded investors who are able to add strategic value. We are focused on three primary verticals: (1) marketing technology, (2) consumer healthcare, and (3) global consumer internet.

“RE3EL and digital-telepathy have a passionate team with an excellent reputation for finding new technologies and increasing the value of that technology,” said James Whitley, CEO of GoLife Mobile Corporation. “Our recently released beta version of GoLife Mobile’s Framework is truly innovative to the developer community. We welcome combining dt’s proficiency in the Internet arena with our unique framework to create “real life” applications that will truly enhance mobile lifestyle and usability.”

Mobile phones are pervasive with over 243 million wireless customers or equivalent to 80% penetration in the United States, according to a June 2007 report from CTIA. Additionally, over 8 million customers downloaded applications according to an early 2007 report from Telephia.

“For some time now we have recognized that the web and mobile are colliding but have found it difficult to leverage our web expertise to move into the mobile space. GoLife is the perfect partner for RE3EL to remain at the forefront of launching innovative concepts built on the latest technologies,” stated Ryan Bettancourt, CEO of RE3EL.

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About the GoLife Mobile: GoLife Mobile Corporation is turning “dumb” phones into smart phones. GoLife has created an innovative cross-device mobile applications framework that significantly accelerates global consumer application development and adoption. GoLife’s extensible system enables users to rapidly deploy everyday lifestyle widgets on virtually any mobile device worldwide. Users experience an entirely new level of interaction with their environment which seamlessly blends together the mobile, virtual and physical worlds thus creating a customizable Life Operating System™.

About Digital-Telepathy: digital-telepathy (dt) designs online businesses and partners with maverick companies and startups that have remarkable ideas. The combination of tools and principles of Web 2.0 with Internet and business strategy is how dt turns those ideas into real opportunities. By taking advantage of these unique opportunities, dt is able to create and execute profitable business plans and strategies. dt launched RE3EL in 2007 to be able to boost its own portfolio of new online business ideas.

GoLife Mobile

digital-telepathy

RE3EL