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Title: [2014-03-10] eBay Quietly Files Patents for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger Post by: Ripdon007 on March 10, 2014, 03:55:40 PM ebay is making a move towards digital currencies it seems...
https://coinreport.net/ebay-bitcoin-exchanger-patents/ Title: Re: [2014-03-10] eBay Quietly Files Patents for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger Post by: RodeoX on March 10, 2014, 04:11:00 PM Hmmm. Good find.
Players are moving their pieces. Title: Re: [2014-03-10] eBay Quietly Files Patents for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger Post by: bryant.coleman on March 12, 2014, 04:42:52 AM So they can now file lawsuits against BTC-E, Bitstamp.etc?
Title: Re: [2014-03-10] eBay Quietly Files Patents for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger Post by: skaffen on March 13, 2014, 09:48:51 AM Who knows what this patent actually covers, it melts the mind trying to read this stuff.
From https://www.google.com/patents/US20130173416 (https://www.google.com/patents/US20130173416) For example, claim 18: 18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the operation further comprise: determining whether the code is valid; and providing access to the digital version of the analog good based on the code being valid. Something to do with digital versions of analog goods. Edit: looks like this topic is a duplicate of one from yesterday: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=508016.0 Title: Re: [2014-03-10] eBay Quietly Files Patents for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger Post by: justusranvier on March 13, 2014, 10:11:32 AM So when eBay starts using this to take down Bitcoin exchanges, is Bitcoin Foundation going to:
1) Use all those donations it got to fund legal challenges to get the patent overturned, or, 2) Urge every Bitcoin business to start paying to license the patent from eBay Title: Re: [2014-03-10] eBay Quietly Files Patents for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger Post by: cedivad on March 13, 2014, 10:14:24 AM So when eBay starts using this to take down Bitcoin exchanges, is Bitcoin Foundation going to: 1) Use all those donations it got to fund legal challenges to get the patent overturned, or, 2) Urge every Bitcoin business to start paying to license the patent from eBay 3) Keep sleeping as they comfortably do already. Posted from Bitcointa.lk - #XjVVzXNtN0oKUCOC Title: Re: [2014-03-10] eBay Quietly Files Patents for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger Post by: cbeast on March 13, 2014, 10:22:25 AM So when eBay starts using this to take down Bitcoin exchanges, is Bitcoin Foundation going to: C. IDK what my bf will do, but I would wallpaper my apartment with C&D letters and stay distributed.1) Use all those donations it got to fund legal challenges to get the patent overturned, or, 2) Urge every Bitcoin business to start paying to license the patent from eBay Title: Re: [2014-03-10] eBay Quietly Files Patents for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger Post by: medUSA on March 13, 2014, 10:34:51 AM Quote Marcus (PayPal president David Marcus) believes that PayPal may involve itself with bitcoin in the future, when the time is right for his company to do so. Donahoe (CEO of eBay John Donahoe) says his company is currently working on implementing bitcoin for PayPal users. They don't seem to be doing much at the moment, but at least they are pretending to be interested in bitcoins Source: https://coinreport.net/ebay-bitcoin-exchanger-patents/ Title: Re: [2014-03-10] eBay Quietly Files Patents for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger Post by: b!z on March 13, 2014, 02:22:06 PM Quote Marcus (PayPal president David Marcus) believes that PayPal may involve itself with bitcoin in the future, when the time is right for his company to do so. Donahoe (CEO of eBay John Donahoe) says his company is currently working on implementing bitcoin for PayPal users. They don't seem to be doing much at the moment, but at least they are pretending to be interested in bitcoins Source: https://coinreport.net/ebay-bitcoin-exchanger-patents/ pretending to be interested = they are interested |