Re: OPEN MARKET PATENTS SOUND ECOMMERCE ALARM

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16405
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texte = >>OPEN MARKET PATENTS SOUND ECOMMERCE ALARM >>The company announces it won patents on three widely used >>ecommerce technologies -- online shopping carts, >>session tracking and real-time credit card transactions. The main thing to avoid is being the company that has to challenge them in court. Let one of the biggies be the companies that pays the lawyer fees (Microsoft have any spare lawyers? ;-) ). They will probably license it for an additional $5-10 dollars per copy of software sold by smaller companies and heftier fees for their direct competition. The patent is a source of licensing revenue to them more than a method of blocking competition.Such is the life of patents and technology..... Whether it will be upheld in court is an interesting adventure about to unfold. Sandy Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: OPEN MARKET PATENTS SOUND ECOMMERCE ALARM (John Hill 1998)
  2. Re: OPEN MARKET PATENTS SOUND ECOMMERCE ALARM (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1998)
  3. Re: OPEN MARKET PATENTS SOUND ECOMMERCE ALARM (Sandra L. Pitner 1998)
  4. Re: OPEN MARKET PATENTS SOUND ECOMMERCE ALARM (John Hill 1998)
  5. Re: OPEN MARKET PATENTS SOUND ECOMMERCE ALARM (Peter Ostry 1998)
  6. OPEN MARKET PATENTS SOUND ECOMMERCE ALARM (Richard Wylie 1998)
>>OPEN MARKET PATENTS SOUND ECOMMERCE ALARM >>The company announces it won patents on three widely used >>ecommerce technologies -- online shopping carts, >>session tracking and real-time credit card transactions. The main thing to avoid is being the company that has to challenge them in court. Let one of the biggies be the companies that pays the lawyer fees (Microsoft have any spare lawyers? ;-) ). They will probably license it for an additional $5-10 dollars per copy of software sold by smaller companies and heftier fees for their direct competition. The patent is a source of licensing revenue to them more than a method of blocking competition.Such is the life of patents and technology..... Whether it will be upheld in court is an interesting adventure about to unfold. Sandy Sandra L. Pitner

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