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MSNBC Looks At Patent Abusers' Victims

Posted by timothy on from the does-the-uspto-count-as-a-conspirator dept.

Camel Pilot writes "Patent claims have reached a new low when "inventor" Witold Ziarno sued the American Red Cross for using the web to accept donations. This MSNBC article discusses this case and how it was beat using web archives and prior art! Also Pangia Intellectual Property has given up hope on extracting fees from small e-commerce websites for its supposedly patent on e-commerce. The only problem with the PanIP case is that they got away without having to pay for the legal fees for the defense in an obvious abuse of the system." (See this previous post for more on PanIP's dropped case.)

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    Woo!

    1. Re:First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. War on Terror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. How long before... by bicho · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:Very strange by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This seams strange

    "seems".
    Or "seam's". ("seam is", as "This seam's strange. The stitching is really weird.")