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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (52867)	4/26/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (52867)	4/27/1999 12:27:00 AM
From: Tom D	Respond to of 164684

Some of KIS posting on patent law is correct. Seth Schulman published a book called "Owning the Future" in 1999. He was one of the panelists on an NPR Science Friday in March 1999 about the crisis in patent law... sciencefriday.com I bought his book at Amazon.com It is fascinating, in the way that rattlesnakes can captivate one's interest. Compton's New Media was awarded a patent for all multimedia software in 1993 (page 59). In 1995 the U.S. Patent Office reexamined Compton's patent and rejected every one of its 41 claims, citing "new evidence" of prior art (page 69). In the spring of 1996, E-data sent letters to 75,000 companies warning that if they were conducting business over the internet, they were likely infringing E-data's broad patent on Internet Commerce (page 78). IBM, Adobe, Intermind and Kidsoft agreed to license the patent. On page 81 the book states that "The E-data case is still currently pending". On page 82 it states..."I suspect that every month for the last three years at least one software patent has been issued that is potentially infringed by everyone on the Internet, with overly broad independent claims and little or no prior art submitted." The full-text versions of all US patents are searchable at the US patent office website. If somebody is really interested, they could call investor relations at priceline and find out the patent number and just search by number to see if the patent is a joke or not. uspto.gov Tom D