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Amazon Sued Over Recommendation Patent
PaschalNee writes "Cendant is suing Amazon for their recommendation patent saying it infringes on a "System and Method for Providing Recommendation of Goods or Services Based on Recorded Purchasing History" patent they own. "
If you infringe this patent you may also infringe...
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I type this every time.
"People who infringe this patent may also infringe..."
(sorry for the repost - it is just a slight improvement over my previous version of this post)
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I type this every time.
I was going to give a list of the top 10 patent lawsuits, but now I am afraid to get sued.
Table-ized A.I.
I'm still waiting for SCO to sue me for not licensing their patented, breathing mechanism which provides oxygen to the human body.
IGB: More fun than eating oatmeal!
I prefer: "What goes around comes around" ;)
Seriously though, when are we going to overhaul these amazingly archaic patent laws? It's like watching a bunch of kids in a sandbox playing tag... eventually one of them punches another and they all start crying and peeing in the sand...
- Ghent
SELECT * FROM products ORDER BY total_sales DESC
Your secret formula is now exposed. Take that!
Table-ized A.I.
Good to hear this now; I stayed up until 4 a.m. last night writing the Recommended Function code to my site last night.
Ref MY new patent #0987612345:
"A method of attempted or actual revenue generation based on claiming damages for patent infringement from other parties, based on the ownership (or acting on behalf of the owner) of patents pertaining to actions or concepts that any sane person would consider blindigly obvious and not worthy of being covered by a patent."
These guys owe me aplenty!
AT&ROFLMAO
entitled "A method of making money by claiming patent infringement on bogus patents of the painfully obvious and prior art."
They will hear from my lawyer shortly.
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They were supposed to get a lot of money from a licensing agreement with Roman Inc, but they got burned on the deal.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Two bad things that go worse together!
Crap, I shouldn't have said that...Henny Youngman's estate is gonna sue me for using a one-liner (TM).
I'm not good in groups. It's difficult to work in a group when you're omnipotent. - Q
And of course, that must be why he "defensively" sued B&N? Jeff's definition of defensive means to defend against competitors competing, not against lawsuits.
Wow, Amazon must have the Bush Administration's official dictionary. They are using the same definition of defense!
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Watch this:
So guys, I see you read Slashdot. I saw some really leet gear on this one website you might like.
SHIT! I can already see the lawyers on the horizon!
Yes - Reagan and Bush shrank the deficits and eliminated the national debt.