EFF: The Patent Busting Project

Daniel writes “The Electronic Frontier Foundation has declared war on what they view as abusive patents which are harming freedom of expression on the Internet.

The project’s home page at
http://www.eff.org/patent/index.php

Explains why these 10 patents:

One-click online shopping (U.S. Patent No. 5,960,411.)
Online shopping carts (U.S. Patent No. 5,715,314.)
The hyperlink (U.S. Patent No. 4,873,662.)
Video streaming (U.S. Patent No. 5,132,992.)
Internationalizing domain names (U.S. Patent No. 6,182,148.)
Pop-up windows (U.S. Patent No. 6,389,458.)
Targeted banner ads (U.S. Patent No. 6,026,368.)
Paying with a credit card online (U.S. Patent No. 6,289,319.)
Framed browsing; (U.S. Patent Nos. 5,933,841 & 6,442,574.) and
Affiliate linking (U.S. Patent No. 6,029,141.)

are in their view illegitimate and should be revoked.”

July 2, 2004 by Uncategorized 0

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