Re: Extortion rights of rent collectors protected by the US Constitution?
- From: Democracy Highlander <nospam_example_com@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:36:15 -0500
sinister wrote:
First two paragraphs:
"Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has sponsored an unusual provision at the
urging of the nation's banks granting them immunity against an active
patent lawsuit, potentially saving them billions of dollars.
"Adopted with little fanfare, the amendment would prevent a small Texas
company called DataTreasury from collecting damages from banks for
infringing on its patented method for digitally scanning, sending and
archiving checks. The patents were upheld last summer by the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office after they were challenged."
Once you have a secure scanner inside and ATM it makes all the sense in the
world to scan and transmit checks online. The idea would came to any
average 12 years old facing the problem in less than a minute.
Therefore, the patent held by DataTreasury seems trivial and because of that
unenforceable anyhow.
Maybe it is time to look at Europeans, where wisdom prevailed over greed and
they banned all software and business process patents. Smart and
intelligent move.
You can write a piece of software and protect it by copyright, but it is
wrong to get a patent on every single trivial idea, then get a lawyer and
try to extort money from everybody else.
So contrary to OP, I actually support Sen. Jeff Sessions action since it is
a milligram of common sense into a society ruled by patent trolls and
greedy do nothing corporations.
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The world of the future will be fully democratic or will not be at all.
Democracy Highlander
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