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A short, entertaining story in the New York Times about an accused infringer’s detective work in finding invalidation prior art:
Mr. Goldin said he spent thousands of hours flying all over the country to search for obscure business contracts and to pick the brains of people in his niche of the financial services industry before finding 48 typewritten pages in the archives of a company called Paymentech in July 2006.
Give it a read!
Prof. Miller, found your website through the property class syllabus… Normally wouldn’t do something as obvious as tell you I’d read your blog, but got as far as this story. I worked for Paymentech from 1997 through 1999, although in a different area of the company than the merchant processing folks. I can’t really add anything to the story, but I remember we spent a lot of time trying to figure out if various processes we had were patentable. I guess at least a few were.
Comment by Michael — September 5, 2007 @ 9:47 pm