PanIP May Be Standing On Shaky Ground

GoatEnigma writes "You may remember the name PanIP, the company trying to hold e-commerce hostage with their patents. Well, according to this update on the PanIP Defendants site, it might not be as easy as they thought. Apparently a little bit of successful legal opposition has slowed down their nefarious scheme. Tim claims to have found evidence to undermine their patents, although the article is very short on details as to what this evidence might be..."

Comments

Re:Patents are wrong

[winkydink]

So tell me? What did Stallman do to pay the rent and eat before he became a MacArthur fellow?

If somebody wants to give me $50k/yr for the next 10 years, I'll be happy to expound upon how wonderful it would be to not have to earn a living

until year 11 that is...

Re:Donated even though I don't do ecommerce.

[Chess_the_cat]

I'm sure most slashdotters want all "intellectual property" laws abolished.

I'm sure they don't. Seems to me that the people who want all intellectual property laws abolished are the ones who have no intellectual property of their own. Why should authors, programmers, musicians, architects, graphic designers, inventors have to give up their creations into the public domain without any compensation? I agree that sometimes these lawsuits go too far and I'd also like to see copyright terms shortened instead of extended but advocating "the abolishment of all intellectual property laws" is just silly, childish, and nonsensical. That wouldn't even work in a Communist country. What is the incentive for people to create if they can't expect compensation?

What the patents are for

[OneIsNotPrime]

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."

So next they'll be suing ATM's and cash registers.

Wonder if this covers a toaster.