There are actually quite a number of payment related patents owned by the Open Invention Network who own patents with the explicit intention of preventing their enforcement and giving anyone royalty-free license to use them. (If I understand the situation correctly) http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/about-us/us-patents-owned-by-oin/ Nice to know! On 20 June 2014 12:26, Joseph Potvin <jpotvin@opman.ca> wrote: > This decision is useful for the web payments solutions development > community to take into account generally. The claim at issue: a > company attempted to patent the abstract idea of financial > intermediation. > > I maintain some informative links here: > http://osi.xwiki.com/bin/Projects/flow-syllabus#HRealWorldPatentCourtCases > > -- > Joseph Potvin > Chair, OSI Management Education Working Group > Doctoral Candidate (Project Management), Unversity of Québec > Operations Manager, The Opman Company > jpotvin@opman.ca > Mobile: 819-593-5983 > >
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