[107412] in Cypherpunks
Re: of interest?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Hapgood)
Wed Jan 13 15:49:44 1999
From: hapgood@pobox.com (Fred Hapgood)
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
e$@vmeng.com, cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:36:00 GMT
In-Reply-To: <v04020a26b2c1a890011a@[139.167.130.248]>
Reply-To: hapgood@pobox.com (Fred Hapgood)
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>Join Professors Franco Modigliani, Andrew Lo, Jeff Meldman, financial
>practitioner Francis Vitagliano, and patent attorney James Bollinger for an
>exciting exploration of Wall Street's hottest new phenomenon--Financial
>Patents! The four sessions in this series will feature:
Is it as obvious to everyone else as it is to me that business model
patents, especially models involving the internet, are absurd from an
enforcement perspective? I have no idea how US lawyers finesse the
conflicts with anti-trust in this country, but I can't imagine
anti-trust regulators in any other country respecting a patent
that tries to grab for a monopoly this comprehensive. Am I
wrong about this??
Fred
