Fwd: Patent for net-trade

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Sep 29 16:17:20 PDT 1999


Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:09:35 -0400 From: "Magnus Bernhardsen" <magnus.bernhardsen at nynorsk.no>

[bounced for an address oddity]

Now... I've just read this story in a Norwegian net-paper, http://w3.digi.no/digi98.nsf/pub/fi19990928142800er6186312657, saying that a small Norwegian firm called Bellboy took out a patent for net-trade in 1993. The paper says the patentees (?) have patented the concept of real-time transactions on the net.

You may look at the patent here: http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/details?pn=EP00738446B1

If this is true it'll mean a whole lot for e-trade...

Magnus Bernhardsen



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