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Dell Infringes on Patent by Selling Overseas?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the beaten-to-it dept.

senior.wrangler writes "Looks like new evidence that the U.S. Patent Office is hiring monkeys to bulk-approve new patents. DE Technologies has been granted a patent covering international transactions handled over the computer. Here's a quote from their web site: With patent coverage securing 80% of the world 's trading markets, DE Technologies is securing licensing arrangements with international trading participants. Kinda creepy, if you ask me."

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  1. Licensing? WTF? by chochos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Who the fuck is going to be interested in licensing something that obviously has prior art written all over it? I live in Mexico and have been buying stuff from Amazon numerous times for like 5 years. Does that count as international transactions over the computer?

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  2. Trouble for all? by comwiz56 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The way the summary describes it, doesn't just about any company that does internation business violate this patent?

  3. Check out the US Patent Examiner... by cypherwise · · Score: 5, Interesting

    job qualifications.
    :-)