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Quote:A Wisconsin based limited liability corporation has filed a suit against several large automotive and apparel companies, claiming they are infringing on the firm's patent in functions they provide customers on their Web sites...

The patent involves technology that Taurus claims allows those companies to provide functions on their Web sites that allow customers to custom configure products ordered via the portals...

full article: http://www.informationweek.com/software/...=201804291&cid=RSSfeed_TechWeb

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Quote:Would you believe that the concept of allowing people to configure a product online before ordering it has been patented? Indeed, just such a patent is at the center of a new lawsuit filed by some unknown patent hoarding company...

full article: http://techdirt.com/articles/20070906/010117.shtml