Posted on 02/18/2008 8:35:44 PM PST by dickmc
How did the comic go to press so they could tell the story?
It is a regulatory taking and regulatory takings are tools that the democrats use.
Sessions is a Dixiecrat.
Sure wish the administration would enforce patent laws when the Chinese rip off entrepeneurs and flood the market with cheap knock offs of what could have been a good product.
You’re absolutely correct about this technology and process being around for 20+ years in the banking industry. Imaging checks is nothing new at all.
Just because this guy comes along and ‘documents the process’ as performed with his equipment and software, then gets some stooge at the patent office to rubber stamp it...doesn’t entitle him to limitless piles of money.
This does smell very funny. Sessions is typically a good Senator so I’d give him the benefit of the doubt until we know more. Are you familiar with the SCO Unix fiasco? They tried to make lawsuit rewards their primary line of business also, claiming they ‘invented’ most of Unix, where in fact it had been around 10+ years before they came along and claimed some of the basic functions of it as their own. Court got wise to their ploy and it didn’t work out so well for ‘em.
SCO considered going after BoA for ‘using stolen technology’ as well.
http://www.news.com/2100-7344_3-5170073.html
This whole story has some eerily similar paralells.
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