It all started less than 20 years ago with the emergence of the first
web browser and its spectacular growth over the last two decades, it has become ubiquitous in our lives, leisure, work and in our fixed and mobile communications used to buy goods even remotely, which is known as e-commerce online.
In the previous article I commented the
Letters Patent of Marque and Reprisal received by entrepreneurs of the New World to become the masters of wealth sailing the seas and robbing foreigners, without being considered pirates by their governments.
What we now know as exclusive patent rights are granted by a State to an inventor, or who's leasing the rights for a certain period of time (20 years) allowing the Patent Office to disclose the invention and preventing other inventors and entrepreneurs to use the patented technology. The inventor must sell or exploit the invention for profit and for return on their investment in research.
A special case is the
Software Patents that have always generated controversy over what is patentable or not, the thousands of algorithms, procedures and components of a computer application to develop, serving as currency among the major corporations that exchange software
patent stock, leaving in the lurch to small and medium enterprises. It is as if the largest ship chartering prevented others small companies to sail in the seas or the web to take over world trade.
It is known the famous case of the
shopping cart which is patented by
Amazon.com as
one-click buying with a single mouse click lets you include a product in the cart then give the buy order.
Now
Paul Allen,
Microsoft co-founder, has sued 11 companies because he says the business can exploit the
Internet through its patented inventions for e-commerce and content searches on the Internet. His company
Interval Research was one of four founders of the
Google search engine, now also sued by
Oracle for use without permission of the patents protecting its
Java programming language.
One of the 4 patents that have been violated, according to Allen, relates to Graphical User Interface - GUI that lets us surf for audiovisual information.
Patent number: US 6880171 B1
Filing Date: June 25, 1999
Issue Date: April 12, 2005
Title: Browser for use in navigating a body of information, with particular application to browsing information represented by audiovisual data
The documentation in this patent can be found at:
FIG. 2A is a diagrammatic representation of a graphical user interface (GUI) 200 according to the invention that can be used to enable control of the operation of a system according to the invention, display information regarding operation of thesystem of the invention and display information acquired by the system of the invention.
FIG. 2B is a view of an illustrative GUI 210 in accordance with the diagrammatic representation of FIG. 2A. The GUI 210 is particularly tailored for use with an embodiment of the invention in which the primary information includes videotape ofone or more news programs and the secondary information includes the text of news stories from text news sources.
Reading the patent description GUI is related 54 times and that may be us shipwrecked by business online pirates of the early twenty-first century, such as Amazon and others.
And you, do you surf or shop online?
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