RE: Shopping Carts under a Company breaking the law???

chieffan <[email protected]> 19 Feb 2003 05:02:28 -0000
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Don't things that become so popular and common loose their patents and become puplic sector?  

I think this happened with Xerox when they first made copiers and people used the term Xerox so freely that it lost its meaning as the company.  I think this has also happened with some pharmaceutical companies.

I would see the same thing being applied to e-commerce.

Maybe this is Al Gore's patent he registered when he assisted in the development of the Internet.