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Company Awarded Patent for "Digital Tickets" (was Re: GigaLaw.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Mon Jul 30 14:33:59 2001
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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 08:39:52 -0400
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At 4:17 AM -0700 on 7/30/01, GigaLaw.com wrote:
> [PATENTS]
> Company Awarded Patent for "Digital Tickets"
> Digital rights management company ContentGuard said it has received a
> patent for a "digital ticket," which lets copyright holders distribute and
> track people's access to digital goods such as music, video, e-books and
> images. Bethesda, Md.-based ContentGuard, which is backed by Xerox and
> Microsoft, said the digital ticket is similar to the way a ticket in the
> physical world allows people to gain access to a concert or a baseball
> game.
> Read the article: ZDNet News @
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2799368,00.html?chkpt=p1bn
>
> Further reading on GigaLaw.com: What is a "Business-Method Patent"? @
> http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001/kirsch-2001-05-p1.html
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