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[2002-11-21] E-Commerce Patent Blackmail - You May Be Next
To date, the only real impediment to doing business online has been the safety of the consumer's financial data. In March of 2002, this all changed.
Enter the U.S. Trademark and Patents Office. Over the last few years, the USTPO has shown extreme ignorance of new Internet technologies. The USPTO has approved some of the most ludicrous patents to be presented to them.
In 1997, AltaVista was granted a number of patents on search engine technologies, even though search engine technology had been in use as early as 1989.
In 1999, Amazon was given a patent for "one-click purchasing."
[2002-11-18] Are You Giving Away Your Digital Products For Free?
If you sell any kind of digital product online, chances are you are giving them away for free. Now, you may not be aware of that, but it's true.
When you created your site, you undoubtedly also created a "thank you" page that thanks your customer for the purchase and allows them to download your product. This is most often the case if you use the popular ClickBank or PayPal systems to process your digital orders.
[2002-11-15] Is Your Web Site Held Hostage By Service Providers?
Do you use third-party services to track the links on your Web site? What about for processing your online credit card payments? If so, you are probably losing sales that you don't even know about.
Third-Party Services Defined.
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