http://www.thefireofgenius.com/2007/08/29/gum-shoe/ Academic commentary about patent law, i.p. law, creativity, and more Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:27:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.thefireofgenius.com/2007/08/29/gum-shoe/#comment-80957 Michael Thu, 06 Sep 2007 04:47:40 +0000 http://www.thefireofgenius.com/2007/08/29/gum-shoe/#comment-80957 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. 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.

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