Kickstarter.com seems to be on the verge of winning its well-publicized declaratory judgment suit against ArtistShare, the crowd-funding website that claims its patent covers Kickstarter’s social financing business model.

Kickstarter’s lawyers at Steptoe & Johnson filed suit against ArtistShare and its patent-holding unit Fan Funded LLC back in October 2011, seeking a ruling that their client doesn’t infringe Fan Funding’s crowd-funding IP.