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39 Web-Service Patents Snatched At Auction

Posted by timothy on from the except-my-candybars-are-being-sold-online-now dept.

JerryP writes "According to this article, an unknown firm called JGR Acquisitions has acquired some 39 patents that apply to a set of key technical protocols known as Web services. The patents offered for sale as part of the liquidation of Commerce One."

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  1. E-mail affected? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I hope this doesn't affect email. Those elderly Koreans will be sorely disappointed.

  2. What? What? What? by St.+Arbirix · · Score: 2, Funny

    What did they have patents on???

    The article says "web services" about 10 times over and says many companies have been using them license free for ages and yet they won't say exactly what those web services are. If any cover Active Directory or LDAP (personal thing) I'm going to laugh. If any cover XML-RPC or SOAP I'll cry.

    Wait. I wouldn't cry.
    I have an assignment due tomorrow morning and I've been using XML-RPC to get it done. If they hurried up and threatened litigation I could probably get out of it...

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