Company Awarded Patent for "Digital Tickets" (was Re: GigaLaw.com Daily News, July 30, 2001)

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 4:17 AM -0700 on 7/30/01, GigaLaw.com wrote:


> [PATENTS]
> Company Awarded Patent for "Digital Tickets"
>      Digital rights management company ContentGuard said it has received a
> patent for a "digital ticket," which lets copyright holders distribute and
> track people's access to digital goods such as music, video, e-books and
> images. Bethesda, Md.-based ContentGuard, which is backed by Xerox and
> Microsoft, said the digital ticket is similar to the way a ticket in the
> physical world allows people to gain access to a concert or a baseball
> game.
>      Read the article: ZDNet News @
>
>http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/newsbursts/0,7407,2799368,00.html?chkpt=p1bn
>
>      Further reading on GigaLaw.com: What is a "Business-Method Patent"? @
> http://www.gigalaw.com/articles/2001/kirsch-2001-05-p1.html

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