Re: eCommerce Idea Patented?

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2002


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texte = If any of you yanks ever have any problems we could always help you out and move your server here into the lawless land of the long white cloud. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale LaFountain To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: Re: eCommerce Idea Patented? > We received a threatening letter from them a few months ago, but it > never went any further than that. We kept quiet, and haven't heard > from them since... . > > -Dale > > >I think someone on the list was being sued sometime back, what ever > >happened to that? > > > >A comic book store I think. > > > >On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 03:41 PM, Glenn Busbin wrote: > > > >>>DeBrand is one of a growing list of businesses sued by a San Diego > >>>company that holds patents on basic E-commerce functionality. > >>>PanIP LLC has sued more than 50 companies in the last seven > >>>months, claiming that their E-commerce Web sites infringe its two > >>>U.S. patents. The patents, No. 5,576,951 and No. 6,289,319, cover, > >>>respectively, an automated sales and services system, and an > >>>automatic business and financial transaction-processing system. > > > >Robert Minor > >Director of Internet Services > >------------------------------------------------------------ > >Cybermill Communications > >http://www.cybermill.com http://www.merchantmaker.com > > > >Providing Ecommerce and interactive website development and > >hosting services on Macintosh, Windows NT, Unix, and AS/400. > > > >All your websites are belong to us! > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > > the mailing list . > >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > > >Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: eCommerce Idea Patented? (dale's stuff 2002)
  2. Re: eCommerce Idea Patented? (Dan Strong 2002)
  3. Re: eCommerce Idea Patented? (Glenn Busbin 2002)
  4. Re: eCommerce Idea Patented? (Andrew Simpson 2002)
  5. Re: eCommerce Idea Patented? (Dale LaFountain 2002)
  6. Re: eCommerce Idea Patented? (Donovan 2002)
  7. Re: eCommerce Idea Patented? (Kalin Mintchev 2002)
  8. Re: eCommerce Idea Patented? (Andrew Simpson 2002)
  9. Re: eCommerce Idea Patented? (Bob Minor 2002)
  10. eCommerce Idea Patented? (Glenn Busbin 2002)
If any of you yanks ever have any problems we could always help you out and move your server here into the lawless land of the long white cloud. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale LaFountain To: WebCatalog Talk Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: Re: eCommerce Idea Patented? > We received a threatening letter from them a few months ago, but it > never went any further than that. We kept quiet, and haven't heard > from them since... . > > -Dale > > >I think someone on the list was being sued sometime back, what ever > >happened to that? > > > >A comic book store I think. > > > >On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 03:41 PM, Glenn Busbin wrote: > > > >>>DeBrand is one of a growing list of businesses sued by a San Diego > >>>company that holds patents on basic E-commerce functionality. > >>>PanIP LLC has sued more than 50 companies in the last seven > >>>months, claiming that their E-commerce Web sites infringe its two > >>>U.S. patents. The patents, No. 5,576,951 and No. 6,289,319, cover, > >>>respectively, an automated sales and services system, and an > >>>automatic business and financial transaction-processing system. > > > >Robert Minor > >Director of Internet Services > >------------------------------------------------------------ > >Cybermill Communications > >http://www.cybermill.com http://www.merchantmaker.com > > > >Providing Ecommerce and interactive website development and > >hosting services on Macintosh, Windows NT, Unix, and AS/400. > > > >All your websites are belong to us! > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > > the mailing list . > >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > > >Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Andrew Simpson

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