[ic] divine, Inc. patent infringements
Mike Heins
interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Fri Sep 20 01:56:01 2002
Quoting Charles Chang (cchang2000@yahoo.com):
> Hi All,
>
> I've been contacted by a lawyer who represents a
> company called divine, Inc. They claim that my
> website has infringed U.S. Patent Nos. 5,715,314 and
> 5,909,492. I have been using Interchange for about a
> year for my online store. The lawyer asked me my
> yearly sale and proposed one-time license fee of
> $5,000 based on my yearly gross volume sale of
> $20,000.
>
> He also said that any site that uses ability to
> accululate items and then checkout those (i.e.
> shopping cart capability) is infringing divine's
> Patents.
>
> I have no intention of infinging anybody's Patents,
> and I always had impression that using Interchange was
> free under GNU license.
>
> Should I pay the $5,000 fee and get over with the
> license? Or is he bullshitting? What will happen to
> me if I ignore this?
>
I certainly wouldn't. This sounds like a scam -- I have never
heard of such a patent and I bet we would have....
--
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting http://www.perusion.com/
phone +1.513.523.7621 <mike@perusion.com>
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