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Old 04-14-2008, 04:00 PM  
brandonstills
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MoxieJam attempting to patent multi-party payments (i.e., affiliate payments).

I just received an email this morning.

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MoxieJam has five patent pending applications for its technology. One of the key patented features is the ability to do multi-party payments, allowing MoxieJam to direct the royalty payments to the various parties associated with the sale of a particular set.
I know another company Zivity doing the exact same thing as them already. Multi-party payments is something our industry has been doing for ages. Even CCBill lets you specify payment splits.

What does this mean to us? Can they actually patent this? What does it mean for everyone if they do? Could this be another SCO?

I wonder what the other patents are for? I suspect they are something we as an industry have already been doing for ages.
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