Has Ed Pool lost his F****** mind ???

[Chris B]

What the hell is this about. Apparently Mr. Ed Pool is trying to, basically patenting e-commerce. If he succeeds he´s planning to charge a fee equal to 0.3% of any computerized trade in the world!

http://www.msnbc.com/news/451936.asp?cp1=1#BODY

I seriously can´t see how this patent could possibly bee granted. That´s even worse than Amazon.com getting the patent for one-click-shopping (for those who know that story)

[Raptor^]

This is quite good too
BT thinks it has a US patent on hyperlinks...

It did have UK and various countries patents on them too, but they expired. The US were a few years slow issueing theres and its still alive today

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[Raptor^]

Originally posted by Chris B:
If he succeeds he´s planning to charge a fee equal to 0.3% of any computerized trade in the world!

Nah, hes only getting a US patent, so only trade involving the US would be affected.

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[Chris B]

Yeah ok... well nevertheless it´s utterly ridiculous. I just can´t believe you can patent something like that.

Just as I found it ridiculous when Bill Gates tryed to patent the "Start" button in windows (basically patenting the word "start"). Did he succeed b.t.w. ?

[Jammrock]

Patent e-commerce? How lame. That's like saying Piggly Wiggly can patent the super market since they were the first people to do it. Or Wal-mart can patent the mega store since they were the first to do that. It's not going to fly. Even if he does get the patent every International e-commerce company is going to file suit against him like Micron, Hyndai and Infinion are doing, to make it non-inforceable.

BTW, the patent would only pertain to International computer-to-computer transactions. So any transaction inside the US will remain untouched. Only businesses doing transactions with companies outside the US will be affected.

Jammrock

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[Werdna]

LOL @ Mr. Pool, very very funny article, almost can't believe it's real. I kinda want him to get it, wait no not really. But the guy did sell his car etc. and if the article is true he basically did invent it. The thing that would swing my decision as to whether I think he should get it would be whether or not the other companies got the idea from his software, which I highly doubt.