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07-22-2008, 08:53 PM
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Florida patent troll called Channel Intelligence is suing everyone from Lemonade to Remember the Milk for infringing on patent 6,917,941, which covers storing a wishlist in a database. Amazon and eBay are absent from the list of targets, even though they very likely store users' wishlists in a database. With any luck, perhaps one of the defendants will get to use that precedent PJ found the other day from In re Lintner, which said, '[c]laims which are broad enough to read on obvious subject matter are unpatentable even though they also read on non-obvious subject matter.'"http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/22/1913223 (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/1913223&from=rss)
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