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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2004-03-08 01:49 pm
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Mike D needs a new scam

This seems to have gotten remarkably little coverage: Eolas Patent Dumped By USPTO.

[identity profile] boutell.livejournal.com 2004-03-08 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Slashdot did cover it.

[identity profile] bitpuddle.livejournal.com 2004-03-08 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
Hey -- that's cool. I hadn't heard that.

[identity profile] wisn.livejournal.com 2004-03-08 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
Cool. Is the USPTO now going to reinvestigate patents for one-click purchasing, ecommerce generally, online media streaming, XML-formatted documents, and other spurious patents, or will it only do so when instigated by multinational corporations?