[ic] divine, Inc. patent infringements

[Mike Heins]

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....

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Mike Heins
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