RE: Company / Patent for sale - video banner technology

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Posted By: Kon

Last time I checked the purpose of this list was not to accommodate sales
pitches?

I refer everyone to: http://www.ffii.org/index.en.html

The 'patent' in question uses a technique of 'sniff and push'. Passing user
information (no matter how unimportant) to a server amounts to nothing less
than spyware.

It is interesting to see how companies that are going under try to 'sell
off' their patents, as if there is any value to them because a patent
officer awarded the patent after no patent database hit was matched. If they
were so valuable, the bankrupt company should be rolling in the dough.

I call it like I see it... :-)

Cheers
Kon

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Moehl [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:12 AM
To: StreamingMedia.com Advanced
Subject: [advanced] Company / Patent for sale - video banner technology

I believe this is quite topical especially after Dan's article on the site
and on Acacia Research etc...

Dan, please excuse me for blatantly making use of this forum to flog
something, however whatever your views on Patents and intellectual property,
a lot of vision, time and resources went into this technology and I would
like it to have a new home. If nothing else it will hopefully fuel the
current discussion on patents...

I have been tasked with disposing of a company "Banner Stream Limited" or
the patents owed by the company that are potentially very valuable. I have a
limited time to do this, i.e. before the next stage of the patent lapses, so
to keep this intellectual property alive someone will need to act quickly if
they believe that it will be of value to them. It would suit anyone that
uses video on their site or anyone with an ad-sales application involving
video (are the big boys listening?)