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:: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 ::
If You Own an Ecommerce Web Site - WATCH OUT!
I caught this via The Adventive Report where there's discussion going on about it...
Subject: Adventive Report, Issue 076: Evils of Ecommerce
To: ADVENTIVE-REPORT@LIST.ADVENTIVE.COM
Overview - a company is suing ecommerce web site owners for using what they feel is patented technology - selling on the web. They're systematically targeting small businesses who in many cases don't have the money to fight back.
To read further:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021020S0002/
"Small companies say they're being sued for employing common practices for doing business on the Net.
It also has opened the company to litigation. 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."
and
if you're actually caught up in this mess go here for help:
http://www.youmaybenext.com/
:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 11/06/2002 09:28:33 AM
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