Open Market grabs patents
In the continuing worrisome trend of
US patent office incompetence,
news.com
reports that
Open Market has been awarded extremely
broad patents covering much of the software in common use today for Internet
shopping and credit card payments. Larger companies can cross-license or claim
patent infringement against Open Market, but smaller ones will be screwed.
Nice to know that the fine tradition of patenting prior inventions, such as
wheels
(also awarded this year) continues in the US.
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