____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 10 February 2008 08:18 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Recent patent/copyright infringement cases filed in U.S. District Courts
>>
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>>| Electronic Data Systems of Plano claims it holds the rights to U.S. Patent
>>| Nos. 7,156,300 and 7,255,268 which generally relate to a system and method
>>| for electronic purchase of prepaid telephone services. The plaintiff's
>>| original complaint describes the inventions whereby a customer can purchase
>>| a specified amount of telephone service through a personal computer or an
>>| ATM machine.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-40080/setexasrecord:recent-patent-copyright-infringement-cases-filed-in-u-s-district-courts
>
> Telephone cards were first used in the 1980s in large numbers, before
> the explosion of the mobile market in Europe and Asia. We still have
> some card-phones around, but as pretty much everyone has a mobile, there
> are few call-boxes left.
>
> Cards are now more frequently used in mobile pre-pay services, where
> codes are entered and verified, so we're already on the 3rd generation
> of these things.
>
> Will someone *please* shut down the USPTO.
The almighty USPTO will carry on patenting and lawyers will make money just as
bankers make money by borrowing money to the Government at times of war (never
mind the need for reconstruction). Meanwhile, countries like India and China
will actually develop good products instead of suing and 'working around'
hurdles (making sub-optimal products as a result). When the recession levels
are exacerbated, America will shout "but we have patents!"
It will then turn out that the software patents = innovation equation doesn't
really parse.
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