Re: OPEN MARKET PATENTS SOUND ECOMMERCE ALARM
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numero = 16406
interpreted = N
texte = >I haven't looked at the actual text of the patents or explored this, but >on the surface I don't think there is anything worry about. Session >tracking and online shopping carts are, without exploring their >explanations a bit more, the same concept. In fact, it is a concept that >has nothing to do with shopping carts or commerce. Considering every major >site on the Web offers tracking of some sort (via cookies, ip address, >username, unique ID, etc.), I can't imagine anyone being allowed to claim >this as intellectual property. I'm sure arguments can be made that this >sort of tracking occured in other ways before the Web. The same is true >for real time credit card processing. Your card swipe machine provides >real time credit card processing. > >What could also kill this, would be prior implementation of these >features. I'd probably bet money that all these features were used before >Open Market existed. Anyway, sorry to ramble, maybe I'm wrong...who knows. > >John. About 2 years ago some guy out of the new england states made all kinds of claims and how he had a patent on electronic commerce and so forth. He even put up a website, sued a bunch of people. And I think I remember reading somewhere that the whole thing was ruled invalid ie [delete db=/invalid/patent.db].=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com ===============================================
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>I haven't looked at the actual text of the patents or explored this, but >on the surface I don't think there is anything worry about. Session >tracking and online shopping carts are, without exploring their >explanations a bit more, the same concept. In fact, it is a concept that >has nothing to do with shopping carts or commerce. Considering every major >site on the Web offers tracking of some sort (via cookies, ip address, >username, unique ID, etc.), I can't imagine anyone being allowed to claim >this as intellectual property. I'm sure arguments can be made that this >sort of tracking occured in other ways before the Web. The same is true >for real time credit card processing. Your card swipe machine provides >real time credit card processing. > >What could also kill this, would be prior implementation of these >features. I'd probably bet money that all these features were used before >Open Market existed. Anyway, sorry to ramble, maybe I'm wrong...who knows. > >John. About 2 years ago some guy out of the new england states made all kinds of claims and how he had a patent on electronic commerce and so forth. He even put up a website, sued a bunch of people. And I think I remember reading somewhere that the whole thing was ruled invalid ie [delete db=/invalid/patent.db].=============================================== Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com ===============================================
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