Dell Infringes on Patent by Selling Overseas?

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."

Comments

Re:Congratulations USA

[drlake]

They aren't, but it's more acceptable to criticize the US these days...

This equates to

[tod_miller]

My first year of uni the ecommerce module, which I just hacked out myself, thinking, I need this.

For fucks sake, just because noone was doing it, I have the internet, I had (at the time) asp, I made an ecommerce site.

Why the fuck would I patent that? I hate these guys.

What I hate about patents is, they take something that is so remedial and simple to us, and they make is sound special, and beyond our grasp, and that we should thank them for it.

Amazon make a $$$$$$ empire on thier own (lets overlook thier fuckwad patents right now) and they do not need some egotistical squirt saying that noone else could have figured this out, and he was th eonly one, and gee, it is worth so much.

This is so fucking wrong, why the fuck can this happen. Next thing you know someone will say Bush got relected.

*slaps own face to wake up*

How did they get NZ patent and shit? Does the USPO have intl. reciprical links with other offices?

For the intellectual crowd, we just shudder and think, what the fuck are these guys doing, trying to take away intellectual freedoms because of thier small penises.

Official, DE tech employees all have small penises

thank you.