EFF To Fight Dubious Patents · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Monday April 19, 2004 @11:25PM from the applause-applause dept.

theodp writes "The Electronic Frontier Foundation launched a campaign on Monday to overturn patents that it says are having a chilling effect on public and consumer interests. The ten patents initially cited as problematic by the EFF Patent Busting Project are: one-click online shopping, online shopping carts, hyperlinking, video streaming, internationalizing domain names, pop-up windows, targeted banner ads, paying with a credit card online, framed browsing, and affiliate linking. Maybe this will prompt former EFF Board Member Tim O'Reilly to share that killer piece of 1-click prior art that's sitting on his bookshelf!"

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Too late? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-19 23:28 · Score: -1, Troll

Pretty much everything that can be invented has been either invented or patented already, so this may be too late. Nice effort, though.