RE: UKNM: US Patents Office and e-commerece

[Marcus Austin]

>"If you take information from remote instructions using an URL like a

>channel, you're directly on top of our patent," says Dave Ladouceur, chief


>applications as sending a phone bill over the Web so that users only need

>to click the link to see the online version."


This is such general description it's almost impossible to say

anything, I wouldn't worry about it. Wait until you see the proper

patent. What they describe also seems to imply that if you used an

HTML link in any document then you would be infringing their patent.


Marcus Austin

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