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Patent Cases Hurting Small Businesses

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the we-got-patent-pending-on-that dept.

smudge writes "An Information Week article states that multiple small businesses with Web presence are being sued by PanIP LLC. The claims in these patents being asserted in the lawsuits refer to 'a computerized system for selecting and ordering a variety of information, goods and services' and 'an automatic data-processing system for processing business and financial transactions between entities from remote sites.'"

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  1. Interesting related link... by TheGreenGoogler · · Score: 1, Redundant

    A Google Cache of a site by those being sued can be found here... It brings up several interesting questions...

  2. My patent by mazg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think I'll patent "a way to modify files on hard drives so that they can be overwritten"

    Then I'll sue microsoft and apple for their blatant use of my idea in what they call "delete"

  3. Re:Vague? by krazyninja · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Actually, there are many patents out there which extend their claims this way. And having come across several patent lawyers myself, it looks like its standard procedure. All patents end with phrases like "..experts well versed in this field would know that this invention is not limited to (whatever the patent mentions) but also to related fields...". I am forced to believe it now..
    I have a list of incredulous patents here.

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