SightSound Patent Case to Move Forward

Masem writes: "CNet reports that a preliminary hearing has allowed the case that SightSound Technologies brought against CDNow over patent infringements to proceed forward, indicating that the judge believes that SightSound has a chance of defending it's case. Sightsound claims that patents it filed in the late 80s covering the "electronic sale" of music and video over a "telecommunications line" cover most of the methods used today on the Internet to peddle music or vidoes, whether by CD/DVD or by MP3/mpeg tracks. Not mentioned in the article, but there are notable parallels between this and BT's patent claim on hyperlinks, in that both patents have an overly broad language, and were filed before the Internet became what it is today, and in both cases the defendants are arguing that the non-specificness of the patents to the Internet make them unapplicable to the specific case."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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There is Prior Art

[7dragon]

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It's only difference from HTML is that it was a little more labor intensive and rather non-intuitive.

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[kiwipeso]

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Re:Good

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello Mr. Nader,
I was wondering how you as a former Green Party presidential candidate would go about solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if you were US president?