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Portland, Maine – February 17, 2009. Identity Cops Inc. announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a Notice of Allowance for ID Cops patent application relating to identity theft detection and/or prevention systems. Specifically, a bot which locates identity thieves and engages them in a natural language trade of information.

The patent application, U.S. Application Serial No. 11/532,039: “System and Methods for an Identity Theft Protection Bot,” relates back to an earlier filing prosecution, dated May 24, 2000 for an overall Identity Theft Protection and Reversal System.

Identity Cops President & CEO, Rebecca Weinstein stated: “This is very exciting news. We truly have the cutting edge software for the detection and prevention of identity theft. With all those out there claiming to have the “best,” we can now say that in fact our technology, the first of its kind in the world, is also the definitive tool.”

A Notice of Allowance generally completes the substantive examination of a patent application. Following a Notice of Allowance, the normal process which results in final issuance of a United States patent involves several administrative steps that are typically completed in due course following issuance of this notice.

About Identity Cops

Identity Cops Inc. (www.idcops.com) is featured as one the “29 hot new companies for 2006” in the December issue of Entrepreneur Magazine (www.entrepreneur.com), and has been highlighted in the Wall Street Journal Online and MarketWatch.com. It is an innovative company with a unique proactive approach to preventing identity theft. Our patent-pending Privacy ProBot technology encodes your personal information and then searches for it in hundreds of thousands of public and private electronic data sources, including underground websites where personal information is bought and sold by criminals. If your information is found in a suspicious place, the ID Cops system pulls the suspect information behind its firewall, reviews it, instantly notifies you of a problem, and immediately provides automatic recovery options. Identity Cops technology is the only truly proactive identity-theft prevention, protection, and remediation service available.

Contact Identity Cops at 207-221-1029 or info@idcops.com and visit www.idcops.com.