Patents.com will be most comprehensive source for patent data worldwide

Ashburn, VA – Today Internet Real Estate Group (IREG) and Monster Venture Partners announced the formation of Patents.com, the first global patent search site to provide over 450 million searchable patent pages in 15 languages. The new company will be led by Chairman Rob Monster, former Founder and Chairman of GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.), a leading provider of technology-enabled services to the global market research industry; CEO Paul Ratcliffe, former CEO and co-founder of Invequity, LLC an intellectual property consulting company focused on licensing activities and provider of the popular patent data website www.patentmonkey.com; and Executive Vice President for Business Development Stephen Pinkos, former Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property (IP) and Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

“When we combine a world class domain name with entrepreneurial industry experts and investment capital – we have the foundation for a significant win,” said Rob Monster, Chairman of Patents.com and Monster Venture Partners. “With the backing of the Internet Real Estate Group, the expertise in intellectual property from Paul and Steve, and the capabilities of strategically aligned business partners, Patents.com is well on its way to being the leading source for patent data worldwide.”

“As we continue to develop premium domains into businesses and brands, we look to add partners with the expertise in the relevant business sector. By acquiring the brains and assets of Paul Ratcliffe and patentmonkey.com, patents.com has an additional leg-up in the sector,” said Andrew Miller, Co-Founder and President of Internet Real Estate Group.

“Adding Steve Pinkos to the Patents.com team is a huge coup. He brings extensive knowledge of the United States Patent & Trademark Office and numerous relationships both in the United States and Global patent communities. We are always looking for leaders to help us grow our brands bigger and faster and Steve brings just the right abilities and contacts to do so for patents.com,” added Co-founder of Internet Real Estate Group Mike ‘Zappy’ Zapolin.

Patents.com was formed by the contribution of selected intellectual property from Internet Real Estate Group and Invequity (patentmonkey.com) with a founding investment from Monster Venture Partners.

The Patents.com website will be live in the coming weeks and a more complete set of data and services will be launched in the first quarter of 2008.

About Patents.com

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

About Internet Real Estate Group

Internet Real Estate Group, LLC, www.InternetRealEstate.com, a leader in the acquisition and development of category generic domain names and online brands, owns a portfolio of businesses including Software.com, Patents.com, Sweepstakes.com, Phone.com, Podcast.com, Chocolate.com, Jeans.com and Consultants.com, comprising a media network of businesses and communities representing some of the most important online categories.

About Monster Venture Partners, LLC

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.

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Oregon, October 23, 2007 – Today James Whitley and Rob Monster announced the launch of GoLife Mobile, a corporation creating an innovative cross-device mobile applications platform that will significantly accelerate global consumer application development and adoption.

GoLife Mobile’s extensible system will enable users to rapidly deploy everyday lifestyle widgets on virtually any mobile device world-wide. Users will 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™.

“Mobile lifestyle applications are the next frontier of the technology era. GoLife is the first to develop a platform that enables even non-programmers to create mobile applications which make the Internet both mobile and personal,” said James Whitley, CEO of GoLife Mobile Corporation. “For example, using our system your mobile device could: notify you when somebody who matches your online dating profile is within your vicinity at the bar, tell you what their favorite drink is, enable you to custom mix a cocktail for them, pay for the drink, have it served, and queue up their favorite song on the jukebox. And that is just one simple scenario. The possibilities are limitless.”

Mounir Shita, Founder and President of Technology for GoLife Mobile Corporation explains, “Our patent-pending technologies will encourage the rapid creation of compelling socially-linked lifestyle
applications by developers. GoLife Mobile’s data-driven platform is user-centric, graphically oriented, community driven and integrated with popular social networking platforms.”

Most carriers today have different plans for voice and data, but the marketplace is changing according to an Analysys research report. “Mobile data will take up rapidly in the next few years, fueled by an increasing adoption of an open approach to the mobile internet, flat-rate data pricing and ongoing deployment of HSPA (high-speed packet access),” said report co-author Dr Yanli Suo- Saunders.
“With over 3 billion mobile devices world-wide, the mobile application space represents a tremendous opportunity. However, mainstream consumers are not likely to purchase a $499 phone with a monthly data plan. GoLife Mobile fills the void and brings useful applications to the global masses.” said Rob Monster, Chairman of GoLife Mobile Corporation and Managing Director of Monster Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm based in Seattle. GoLife will also GOLIFE MOBILE CORPORATION GOLIFE MOBILE CORPORATION PAGE 2 leverage Monster Venture Partners’ network of best-of-breed content and distribution channels such as Demoxi and the Internet Real Estate Group which is the parent company of a portfolio of domain names such as software.com, phone.com, and sweepstakes.com.

In the coming months, GoLife Mobile will make available a private beta download of several lifestyle applications. For more information, or to join the private beta, please visit www.golifemobile.com.

About James Whitley, Chief Executive Officer James is co-founder and CEO of GoLife Mobile Corporation and brings over fifteen years of technical and operational expertise to the GoLife Mobile team. With a diverse career in building software organizations, start-ups, and executive level management teams, James is a sought after speaker as well as a practitioner faculty member at a number of colleges and universities around the nation.

About Mounir Shita, Founder and President of Technology
Mounir, founder and President of Technology at GoLife Mobile, is a veteran of the mobile industry. He is the founder of several mobile start-ups and a proven entrepreneurial visionary. Most recently,
Mounir founded and served as Chief Technology officer of PayWi Corporation, an innovative social mobile payment company.

He advises various institutional investors and entrepreneurs in mobile technologies and business strategies within the mobile industry.

About Rob Monster, Chairman Robert W. Monster leads Monster Venture Partners (MVP), an early-stage venture capital firm based in Seattle, focused on global technology opportunities. Mr. Monster is the co-founder and chairman of several companies, including demoxi, giving users control of all their online identities in one
application and GMI (Global Market Insite, Inc.), providing technology-enabled services to the global market research industry.

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