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Strategies & Market Trends : e-Commerce the Next 100 Months...... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TLindt who wrote (585)	4/17/1998 6:34:00 AM
From: jjs_ynot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2882

Internet commerce doubles every 100 days per: biz.yahoo.com

To: TLindt who wrote (585)	4/19/1998 9:32:00 AM
From: Mel Spivak	Respond to of 2882

>> GIFT "THE Internet Patent". It seems that time is getting near for GIFT's "day in court" where the court SDNY will decide the "scope" of the coverage of the claims of this patent in what is called a Markman Hearing". The patent cover such a situation where one chooses an item of digital data to buy and download for an agreed price by credit card, cyber bucks, etc. It does NOT cover wher they ship you the item by UPS, US Mail, etc. Nor does it cover subscription services or free services (free upgrade of software.) Examples of digital products that it could cover: music, software, newspapers, periodicals etc. GIFT has plans of having the publishers of such digital products pay them licensing fees for utilizing GIFT's patented method of distribution (whose costs of distribution are almost nil). Such publishers are Defendants McGraw Hill, others like Time Warner, Sony Music, Gannett, MSFT, etc. IBM, Adobe and others have licensed the patent. Here is my "history" of my involvement in GIFT: techstocks.com