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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lloyd Wood
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 1998 12:39 PM
> To: FoRK@xent.ics.uci.edu
> Subject: Re: Prior art on OpenMarket patents
>
> On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Dan Kohn wrote:
>
> > The Internet company I started in 1993, NetMarket, has prior art to
> > OpenMarket's shopping cart and session ID patents.
>
> idleQ: Did you trademark the term NetMarket at that point? If so, how
> far afield?
>
> A quick websearch on it shows a host of (likely later) NetMarkets
> around the world - Singapore, Italy, Brazil.
>
> Suddenly, trademarking every name with Net in it around the world
> seems the Obvious Missed Opportunity of 1992.
>
>
> > Does anyone know to whom I can forward this info for it to be useful
> in
> > the fight against OpenMarket's patents? Patenting stuff this
> obvious is
> > just pathetic.
>
> Compton's got their multimedia patent. TRW got their orbit patent.
> Consider these pathetic prior art.
>
> There's a lot wrong with the US patent office, IMO. Such as 'first to
> invent' when 'first to file', which the rest of the planet has
> standardised on, benefits the public more. Then there's:
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/10638.html
>
> Who is this Orrin Hatch, and why does he understand nothing about why
> patents exist?
>
> L.
>
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