For those who are against such patents, I urge you to visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation Patent Busting Project. The project involves a campaign to root out the most broad patents or inventions that has prior art. This usually only concern the US patent office although Europe isn't safe yet. Earlier this year, France and Germany attempted to block reforms to the EC patent law from evolving adopting US style procedures - so its safe for now. Groklaw is a good place to read about patent laws although the blog site concerns mostly about the ongoing SCO Vs IBM case. Go IBM!
Some of those patented includes:
- One-click online shopping
- Online shopping carts
- The hyperlink
- Video streaming
- Internationalising domain names
- Pop-up windows
- Targeted banner adverts
- Paying with a credit card online
- Framed browsing
- Affiliate linking
Shocking isn't?
Source: BBC News
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