[ic] divine, Inc. patent infringements
Kevin Walsh
interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Tue Nov 5 23:54:01 2002
L M [lmurch1@earthlink.net] wrote:
>
> Divine Inc has submitted claims against some big players. FTD.COM for one.
> Amazon appears to be out of the picture as they were online prior to the
> patent filing in 1998.
>
So why do they have a patent at all? Isn't "prior art" a consideration
any longer? Not that I care either way, of course.
Software and business practice patents - just say no. :-)
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