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My wishlist, depending on Channel Intelligence

The guys over at Independent Sources are a bit undone by a bizarre lawsuit filed by Channel Intelligence.  It seems the guys at Channel Intelligence have filed a lawsuit over anyone who has developed a wishlist using a database.  They however, have not taken on the big boys like Ebay or Amazon.  They’re smart enough to know that the frivolty of their lawsuit would get them swamped in legal fees if they did.  Basically they’re just tryign to blackmail the little guys.  That’s bogus and won’t get very far.  Primarily because all the little guys have to do apparently is change the name of their feature to an “I want” list as opposed to a “wish” list.  Or, all they have to do apparently is use the engines of one of the big boys to handle their “wish” list, something like this for example:

Hey, don’t sue me, it’s an Amazon list!

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    6 Comments so far


    1. Channel Intelligence on July 25, 2008 1:13 pm

      Consider yourself served just like those losers at Independent Sources.

      Signed,

      Channel Intelligence Legal Team

    2. Moonage on July 25, 2008 1:34 pm

      Don’t sue me bro!
      :)

    3. List_user on August 20, 2008 2:11 pm

      I’m afraid your comment about simply changing the nomenclature to “I want” is not correct. Channel Intelligence was actually awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent Office that somehow makes them an inventor of all types of lists, whereby the data contained in the list does not originate with the publisher of the list, and that list can be updated by a client-side interface by requesting data from an unrelated server. It’s utterly and completely insane, but those are the facts. I’m hoping that someone with deeper pockets than the ones their suing can step in.

    4. Moonage on August 21, 2008 11:34 pm

      It really doesn’t matter what I call it. They are saying they have a patent on indexed multi-client product listings. I’ve been writing those since 1993 using Microsoft Advanced Basic and Microsoft Access. I’d comment more but it’s probably not proper, yet.

    5. List_user on August 25, 2008 3:10 pm

      Moonage, I’m in contact with one of the defendents in the Channel Intelligence suit and they would certainly appreciate and documented proof you have of using the so-called technology prior to the patent being granted July 12, 2005.

    6. Moonage on August 25, 2008 4:04 pm

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