Another crazy patent lawsuit happening

oh no not again

thats so fucking lame.

hehe, smartasses. wonder whats next

Sad shit. It's particularly saddening to realize that a large share of patents being filed are either 1) strategic moves to head off competition and/or 2) legal "land grabbing" (ie., map out a potentially lucrative tech field with patent 'implementations', wait for actually useful technologies to develop TOWARDS (perhaps not even IN) the field of implementations, and BAM!--cash in with lawsuits.

Sad shit. Considering that the idea behind patents and copyrights is to ENCOURAGE innovation instead of SPECULATION and ANTI-COMPETITION (which is the opposite of encouraging innovation).

Wheeeeeee!

Sue the man for holding you down

taken from their site http://www.pat-rights.com/InternetUs...ification.html

"Internet User Identity Verification" Patents:

US and Australia Patents granted : US 6665797, AU 765841, and world-wide patents pending.

It is related to using a payment account information to verify the identity of a user, the payment account may be a credit account, before providing the user access to computer software/apparatus.

Probably you have use it before .

But different Companies call it with a different name.

iTunes of Apple, MusicMatch, RealNetworks and other Internet Music Shops call it computer registration, they allow a user to register up to 3 computers for enjoying music tracks purchased (infringing US Patent 6665797, claims 6, 18, 20, 21 etc), without requiring repeat payment. For details, please refer to our comparison charts.

eBay, uBID, Yahoo and other Internet Auction Websites do not give it a formal name, but if you desire to bid there, you have to register as a user by submitting a valid credit card information, for verifying your identity, address etc (infringing US Patent 6665797, claim 21). Of course, the credit card is not charged.

And, all USA PORN web businesses call it AVS (Adult verification System, also infringing US Patent 6665797, claim 21). AVS verifies a PORN website visitor as an adult basing on credit card information submitted, before allows the visitor to enjoy free PORN content."

The prior work on this one should be most interesting.