Re: PANIP - did anyone hear of this?

I think that this list is the forum to discuss this subject on, since it
deals directly with online business.

I belong to a couple other discussion groups, and one of them is the Miva
Merchant users group.  For those of you who are not familiar with it, Miva
Merchant is one of the most popular e-commerce programs commercially
available, and we have designed sites for about a dozen clients using Miva
Merchant.  The subject of PanIP and their lawsuits has been discussed at
length on that forum, and if anyone here is interested in what has been said
there, here is a link to the archive:

(make sure you get the entire URL, it may be broken in this e-mail)
http://www.mvdevelopment.com/mvlists/index.mv?sort=rec&srchlist=&search=PanI
P&srchwords=all&srchfields=all&pagesize=10

As many of you are people who make a living either directly or indirectly
through online sales, you should look into this so that you are aware of
what is going on.  I would like to hear what the resident legal beagles on
the list have to say about it.

Thanks!

Michael Schultz
Vice President of Operations
Virtualtech Web Site Design and Promotion, Inc.
http://www.virtualtech.com
"We Put The Pieces Together"

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doris Kyburz" <doris(at)kyburz.net>
To: "hwg-business" <hwg-business(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:05 PM
Subject: PANIP - did anyone hear of this?


> Dear all of you,
>
> I have been lurking and learning on this mailing list for a long
> time. Thank you for being such good teachers :-)
>
> Now I have something here I do not know how to deal with and I
> figured that the business mailing list may enlighten me here.
>
> I've made an e-commerce site for a friend of mine and she has gotten
> news about this company PANIP LLC (Pangea Intellectual Properties in
> San Diego) who is suing companies all over the country claiming that
> graphical and textural information on a video screen and accepting
> information to conduct automatic financial transactions via a
> telephone line & video screen is infringing their two patents (US
> Patent No 5,576,951 and US Patent No 6,289,319).
>
> Here is a link to a site of a group of Panip Defendants:
> http://www.youmaybenext.com
>
> Here are my questions:
> Did anybody hear about this?
> Does my friend who has a small business for computer accessories have
> to look out for those guys?
> What do you suggest I tell my friend so she can have a sound sleep again?
>
> Thanks a lot for your input,
>
> Doris
>
>
> PS. If this is something that is not supposed to be discussed on the
> list I'll be happy to discuss this off-list. Thanks.
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