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> 1993. The paper says the patentees (?) have patented the concept of
> real-time transactions on the net.
at the rate the USPTO is screwing up, we can look forward to systemic reform of intellectual property law in the near fu- ture. it might be good to consider in advance what you would *like* it to look like, rather than merely waiting to see what you're handed.
cheers, t
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:30:31 -0400 From: James Love <love at cptech.org> To: RANDOM-BITS <random-bits at essential.org> Subject: Aharonian: The growing flood of "Wall Street" patents
Another of Gregory Aharonian's posts regarding business practices patents. Jamie
Subject:
PATNEWS: The growing flood of "Wall Street" patents
Date:
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 13:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:
Gregory Aharonian <srctran at world.std.com>
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To:
!19990929 The growing flood of "Wall Street" patents
The issue of patents on methods of doing business seems to have quieted down for the time being (though I heard a hilarious rumor involving Gail Hayes, an examiner on many of these patents - anyone with a copy of her letter please fax me a copy). Despite the lull, these patents are regularly being issued. What follows is a list of 110 "Wall Street" patents, i.e., patents on things that Wall Street institutions like to do. Interestingly, 75% of them have issued since 1997, and I suspect that now that the CAFC has ruled that "anything is patentable" (ATT/Excel), there will be a flood of such patents to match the other floods coming out of the PTO.
Greg Aharonian Internet Patent News Service
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5,953,423 Electronic-monetary system 5,950,176 Securities trading system with a virtual specialist function 5,946,668 Funding a home investment trust 5,946,667 Financial debt instruments method 5,946,666 Financial securities monitoring system 5,940,810 Estimation method for complex securities using low-discrepancy
deterministic sequences 5,933,817 Tiered interest rate revolving credit system and method 5,933,815 Providing guaranteed lifetime income with liquidity 5,930,775 Optimal investing for distressed residential real estate loans 5,930,774 Mutual fund portfolios evaluation 5,930,760 Annuity rates derivation 5,920,848 Financial transactions, services, accounting, and advice using
intelligent agents 5,920,629 Electronic-monetary system 5,918,217 User interface for a financial advisory system 5,913,198 Survivor benefit plans design and administration 5,911,136 Prioritized operation of a personal financial account
comprising liabilities and investment assets 5,911,135 Managing financial accounts by a priority allocation of funds
among accounts 5,907,828 Lender-owned credit life insurance policies implementation and
administration 5,897,621 Multi-currency transactions system and method 5,893,079 System for receiving, processing, creating, storing, and
disseminating investment information 5,884,287 Displaying risk and return in an investment portfolio 5,884,285 Managing financial accounts by reallocating funds among accounts 5,884,274 Generating and executing insurance policies for foreign
exchange losses 5,878,405 Pension planning and liquidity management system 5,878,404 Load amortization management 5,878,139 Electronic merchandise dispute resolution 5,875,437 Operation and management of one or more financial accounts
through the use of a digital system for exchange, investment
and borrowing 5,873,072 Electronically providing customer services including payment
of bills, financial analysis and loans 5,873,066 Managing and documenting the underwriting of an excess casualty
insurance policy 5,870,720 Implementing a restructuring exchange of an excessive undivided
debt 5,866,889 Integrated full service consumer banking system and system and
method for opening an account 5,864,828 Personal financial management system for creation of a client
portfolio of investment and credit facilities where funds
are distributed based on a preferred allocation 5,864,685 Increasing income trust computer transaction system and insured
investment account system 5,857,176 Fixed income portfolio data processor 5,852,811 Managing financial accounts by a preferred allocation of funds
among accounts 5,852,808 Providing professional liability coverage 5,842,178 Computerized quotation system and method 5,832,461 Investment management including means to adjust deposit and
loan accounts for inflation 5,819,238 Modifying a financial portfolio through dynamic re-weighting
based on non-constant function of capitalization weights 5,819,237 Determination of incremental value at risk for securities trading 5,819,236 Providing advance notification of potential presentment returns
due to account restrictions 5,812,988 Jointly estimating cash flows, simulated returns, risk measures
and present values for a plurality of assets 5,812,987 Investment fund management method and system with dynamic risk
adjusted allocation of assets 5,809,484 Funding education by acquiring shares of students future earnings 5,809,483 Bond trading online transaction processing system 5,806,049 Global assessment of investment opportunity and cost 5,806,048 Open end mutual fund securitization process 5,806,047 System for combined pool portfolio 5,802,499 Providing credit support to parties associated with derivative
and other financial transactions 5,799,287 Optimal portfolio replication 5,799,087 Electronic-monetary system 5,787,404 Credit-card based retirement fund system and method 5,787,402 Performing automated financial transactions involving foreign
currencies 5,784,696 Evaluating portfolios based on investment risk 5,775,734 Investment administration system 5,774,883 Selecting a seller's most profitable financing program 5,774,880 Fixed income portfolio index processor 5,774,553 Foreign exchange transaction system 5,765,144 Selecting liability products and preparing applications 5,761,442 Securities portfolio selection where each using neural networks
trained using data relating to a corresponding security 5,761,441 Analyzing and administering a stock investment limited-recourse
borrowing contract 5,761,386 Foreign exchange rate time series prediction and classification 5,752,237 Providing professional liability coverage 5,749,077 Updating and selectively accessing financial records related
to investments 5,745,886 Open distribution of electronic money using trusted agents 5,745,885 Funding education by acquiring shares of students' future earnings 5,742,775 Creating financial instrument and administering an adjustable
rate loan system 5,732,400 Risk-based purchase of goods 5,729,700 Facilitating execution of asset trades based on nonnegative
investment risk, using overlapping time periods 5,710,889 Interface for electronically integrating global financial services 5,706,502 Internet-enabled portfolio manager system and method 5,704,045 Risk transfer and risk diversification including means to
assure with assurance of timely payment and segregation of
the interests of capital 5,696,907 Risk and credit analysis of financial service applications 5,692,233 Integrated system and method for analyzing derivative securities 5,689,650 Community reinvestment act network 5,671,364 Commodity-based currency for payment of accounts and
elimination of payment risk 5,671,280 Commercial payments using trusted agents 5,659,165 Customer-directed, automated process for transferring funds
between accounts via a communications network 5,644,727 Operation and management of one or more financial accounts
through the use of a digital communication and computation
system for exchange, investment and borrowing 5,590,037 Computing a financial projection and an illustration of a
prefunding program for an employee benefit 5,563,783 Securities pool allocation 5,557,518 Open electronic commerce using trusted agents 5,557,517 Determining the price of an expirationless American option and
issuing a buy or sell ticket on the current price and portfolio 5,502,637 Investment research delivery system 5,455,407 Electronic-monetary system 5,453,601 Electronic-monetary system 5,383,113 Electronically providing customer services including payment of
bills, financial analysis and loans 5,297,031 Order management by market brokers 5,237,500 Converting constant dollar financial instruments 5,214,579 Goal-oriented investment indexing, tracking and monitoring
data processing system 5,202,827 Insuring futures contracts against catastrophic loss 5,193,056 Hub and spoke financial services configuration 5,187,801 Massively-parallel computer system for generating paths in a
binomial lattice 5,148,365 Scenario optimization 5,136,502 Funding, analyzing and managing health care liabilities 5,132,899 Stock and cash portfolio development system 5,126,936 Goal-directed financial asset management system 5,101,353 Providing liquidity to securities markets 4,953,085 System for the operation of a financial account 4,933,842 Automated investment fund accounting system 4,774,663 Securities brokerage-cash management system with short term
investment proceeds allotted among multiple accounts 4,752,877 Funding a future liability of uncertain cost 4,751,640 Automated investment system 4,742,457 Investment management including means to adjust deposit and
loan accounts for inflation 4,722,055 Funding future liability of uncertain cost 4,597,046 Securities brokerage-cash management system obviating float
costs by anticipatory liquidation of short term assets 4,566,066 Securities valuation system 4,376,978 Securities brokerage-cash management system 4,346,442 Securities brokerage-cash management system 4,334,270 Securities valuation system -- -------------------- James Love, Consumer Project on Technology love at cptech.org, http://www.cptech.org P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036 v. 202.387.8030, f. 202.234.5176
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