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The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing - Jeane Baptiste Colbert
Actus goes patent lawsuit crazy
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Sues world plus dog
Thursday, 4 June 2009, 10:55
IF YOU HAVE NOT been sued by the outfit Actus then you are one of the few that hasn't.
The outfit clams that more than 15 companies, including Apple, Amazonmdocs, American Express, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Cabela's, Citigroup, Ebay, Firstview, Marketing Technology Concepts, Netspend, Officemax, US Bancorp, and Vivotech have nicked its technology.
At issue are four patents for using electronic tokens for e-commerce. Actus got the e-commerce patents between February 2007 and May 2008. µ
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There should be registry of companies and persons such as Actus and they should be deprived of certain rights enjoyed by others.
If we can do it successfully with sex offenders we can certainly regulate patent trolls.
They've been cited twice. Way to go fruitjuice
Cant say that i know what a e-commerce token is, dang it now i have to "Bing It"
Just a note here that there are two apples the computer company and the Beetles founded company. It may be that the law suit is against both companies or it may be that apple computer is just mentioned twice by accident.
Isn't it about time we overhaul our patent system? Its getting out of hand. People get patents way after they should and go sue crazy.
Stupidity at its finest.
Greeeaattt... yet another patent troll...