Online Greeting Cards Patented

Trailer Trash writes "According to this story at bizreport.com, Hallmark has given in and licensed Tumbleweed Communication Corp's patent for delivery of online documents with e-mail notification. Will the idiots at the patent office never stop? Jeff Smith of Tumbleweed claims to have been granted three patents last year."

Comments

I'm happy with this one

[jsse]

Flame me if you like, but I'm more than happy to see this.

In the beginning people thought e-cards would save papers, but turn out junk mails is more worse than that.

Why torturing people with E-card when a simly greeting email could do? I've enough e-cards last year. Anybody with me?

To make it more annoying, the senders will be notified when the receiver has visited the site and opened the e-cards. It'd be awkward if I read them too late, or not reading them at all.

And it'd be too impolite to tell them not to send me fancy e-cards, argh!

Now they must license to offer these services, thus could help decreasing the usage of e-cards. Great, sound like a good news for me, I expect less e-cards next time.

(If the trend of e-cards is growing, I might have to make a procmail filter to tell the sender "I got your e-cards thanks a lot but my procmail ate it.". :)

Oh, shut the fuck up.

[grytpype]

You Slashtards don't know anything about patent law, patent policy, or any goddamn thing relating to patents. So shut the fuck up about it.