Web patent nullified

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And it only took M$, W3, the FTC and some other prominent folks.

All Bush seniors fault!!!
He had to go and made the patent office self-financing, which is about the same as telling the cops they only get paid for the tickets they write.

How about these ones:
- Online affiliate programs are patented.
- Online shopping carts are patented.
- Frames are patented.
......and the list goes on.

Seems to be a pretty good backlash growing about these software patents though. Bad for business and bad for the internet.

My favorite is challenge in the making, is that the patent office doesn't have the constitutional authority to be issuing software patents. It apparently should have required an act of congress for them to branch out into new fields. And software was handled very nicely under copyright law before Bush Sr..