[Ecommerce] Youmaybenext.com and panip ecommerce patent

[James Love]

Slashdot on "youmaybenext," a web site organized to fight US Patent No. 
6,289,319, on the use of graphical and textural information on a video 
screen for purposes of making a sale.


http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/11/05/2121249.shtml?tid=155

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/4441222.htm
Beere is fighting what he says is an extortion scam.

http://www.youmaybenext.com/

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We Are You!
If you own or operate an e-commerce web site then you are us. And you need 
to know that a company in San Diego, Pangea Intellectual Properties (PanIP 
LLC) is suing companies all across the country. They claim that if you use 
graphical and textural information on a video screen for purposes of making 
a sale, then you are infringing on their patent. US Patent No 5,576,951.

And if you accept information to conduct automatic financial transactions 
via a telephone line & video screen, you're infringing on their patent. US 
Patent No. 6,289,319


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