pulled off another site.....
"Looks like you can now be sued
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021020S0002/1 for using graphical and textural content on your e-commerce site. As everyone who has an e-commerce site does. A company
http://www.panip.com/ in San Diego was granted one patent
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...1&f=G&l=50&s1='5,576,951'.WKU.&OS=PN/5,576,951&RS=PN/5,576,951 for using graphics and text to sell things on the web and another
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...1&f=G&l=50&s1='6,289,319'.WKU.&OS=PN/6,289,319&RS=PN/6,289,319 for accepting information to conduct automatic financial transactions via a telephone line & video screen. They have started their crusade with smaller companies that do not have the financial resources to fight back so as to build a "war chest" to take on larger companies like Ebay and Amazon. One site
http://www.youmaybenext.com/ has taken the offense after becoming one of the first defendants of 50 companies
http://www.youmaybenext.com/ so far. Curiously it appears the company was formed in March of 2002, less than a month before filing for the first lawsuit
http://www.youmaybenext.com/why.html."
hahahaha. Craziness.