Business Method Patents Commerce in Digital Goods
- Topics:
- Commercial Litigation
- Source:
- Thelen Reid & Priest
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Overview: This article brings out details about "business method" patents that are patents relating to the creation and distribution of "digital goods." Digital goods can comprise any product or service that can be turned into bits and bytes. Commerce in digital goods is the quintessence of commerce using the Internet. Although both physical and digital goods can use the Internet as a sales and marketing channel, only digital goods can use it for sale and delivery in a single customer transaction, thereby providing cost savings and customer convenience superior to physical distribution. Since the 1952 Patent Act, business methods have been, and should have been, subject to the same legal requirements for patentability as applied to any other process or method.
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Format: PDF | Size: 417KB | Date: Apr 2003 | Pages: 4
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