Re:just.say.no (Score 1)

As a previous comment has noted, the difficult part is not to get a patent granted, but to uphold it and possibly defend it in court.

This patent has at least three major weaknesses.

1: A patent can not be obvious. And, seriously, who didn't think of ecommerce when they encountered the web?

2: You can't patent previously known technology. A quick peek at Amadeus history shows us they used most of these features before the patent was filed in 1993.

3: The patent describes the whole process as one long connection to the "central computer". This is not how the web works.

BellBoy has collected 6 million Nkr from investors to defend this patent. They sorely need it, and I'm afraid that is all the money they'll ever see.