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Date: 1999-12-23
Internet, Wilder Westen, Copyright-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Internet, Wilder Westen, Copyright Nicht ganz taufrisch vom Printdatum, aber vom Inhalt her alles andere als in/aktuell. Wie E-Kommerz vom Patentierwahn/sinn gewürgt wird, es liest sich abenteuerlich. Das Paradigma der antiken Firma Xerox und ihre vormalige Blockade der Konkurrenz durch Patentierung allen Kopierens auf Normal/papier möge ein warnend Beispiel sein. .-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- relayed by Dave Banisar [email protected] -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- December 11, 1999 Surging Number of Patents Engulfs Internet Commerce ll over the Internet, from the most popular search engines to personal home pages, are buttons that offer to send users to an online store where they can buy books or music or other merchandise. Hundreds of thousands of sites have added these links because they earn commissions if any of their users click on them and then buy something. This week, those sites suddenly found themselves at risk of violating a patent just granted to a New York company called LinkShare Corp. That patent gives LinkShare the right to block anyone from using such an arrangement for links between sites with commission payments. The number of patents related to the Internet has been skyrocketing. ... "This is the end of the wild, wild West on the Web," said Stephen Messer, LinkShare's founder and chief executive. "There are laws that protect the pioneers from pirates who steal all of their good ideas. Everything you love to do on the Internet will have some sort of patent on it." ... Priceline.com, for example, has sued Microsoft and its travel service, Expedia, over Priceline's patented arrangement letting customers name their price for flights and hotels. Yahoo has been sued by an inventor who claims a patent on a shopping-cart feature on its site. And DoubleClick Inc., a big Internet advertising network, has sued two smaller companies over its patent on an ad-targeting technology. Some suits are already changing the face of the Internet. Two weeks ago, for example, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring Barnesandnoble.com from letting customers buy goods with a single mouse click, a method Amazon has patented. .. "People are getting patents on things that are too general," said Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo. "It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business." One reason for the surprise is that patent applications in the United States are secret until they are granted. And the U.S. Patent and Trademark office is only now approving applications filed two or three years ago in the formative stages of the Web. The office granted 1,390 patents related to the Internet in the first half of 1999, compared with only 648 in all of 1997. .. For example, Sightsound.com of Mount Lebanon, Pa., says it has a patent on the entire concept of selling music through digital downloads, one of the hottest trends on the Internet. Sightsound has demanded that anyone selling music in digital form online pay it a royalty of 1 percent. It is suing CDNow, the online music store being acquired by Time Warner and Sony, to assert that claim. .. At the end of the day, Internet sites may be forced to pay royalties to use some of the most popular features. And in some cases, patent holders may keep some of the best ideas to themselves, the way Xerox, for example, blocked competitors from offering plain-paper copiers for years. Volltext, aus Gründen des Copyrights regist/rierungs/pfl/ichtig http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/11web.html -.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by published on: 1999-12-23 comments to [email protected] subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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