Re: Who owns the patent for keyword based text ads?

[joe.biz]

would anyone like to attempt to answer?

[Pete]

"joe.biz" <joe.biz@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> would anyone like to attempt to answer?
>

what is there to patent? its just links at the end of the day.

[C.W.]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 13:10:56 +0000 (UTC), "Pete"
<noone@i-see-a-little-silloutte-of-a-man.com> wrote:

>"joe.biz" <joe.biz@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> would anyone like to attempt to answer?
>>
>
>what is there to patent? its just links at the end of the day.

Doesn't mean that someone won't try to patent something at the end of
the day:
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50356,00.html

Cute in retrospect when you read the two parties involved -- both I
think were later acquired by Yahoo. The case I don't think went
anywhere though.


Which brings us to the #1 result for the search phrase text ads
+patent:

http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2004/08/10/yahoo_exacts_huge_google_settlement_for_selfserve_ad_patent/
Answer: Yahoo does thanks to acquiring Overture.


Carol

[Pete]

"C.W." <from_you@nomail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Doesn't mean that someone won't try to patent something at the end of
> the day:
> http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50356,00.html
>
> Cute in retrospect when you read the two parties involved -- both I
> think were later acquired by Yahoo. The case I don't think went
> anywhere though.
>

BT have partnered with Yahoo for broadband services in the UK, and i think a
similar thing with prodigy.
i dont think yahoo could afford BT tho!

See the 'League for Programming Freedom': http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/ if you are
(like you should be) against software patents.