AT&T Patents Trusted Intermediaries, Sues PayPal

["Seth Johnson" <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>]

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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:04:12 -0500
Subject: Re: AT&T Patents Trusted Intermediaries, Sues PayPal


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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:05:57 +0100 (MET)
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From: Simon Lelieveldt <simonl@planet.nl>
Subject: Re: AT&T Patents Trusted Intermediaries, Sues PayPal
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>

At 09:03 21-11-03 -0500, you wrote:
>"PayPal and eBay have infringed AT&T's U.S. patent that covers
transactions
>in which a trusted intermediary securely processes payments over a
>communications system such as the Internet."
>
>
>I wonder what American Express, VISA (and Plus), MasterCard (and
Cirrus),
>Diner's Club, NASDAQ, Autex, Telerate, and even Quotron -- not to
mention
>CRESTCo, DTC, and SWIFT -- would have had to say about *that*?
>
>*This* should be fun...
>
>:-)

Hi Bob,

Not to mention all banks that are active on the internet.

regards
simon

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