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by throwawaykf09 3275 days ago
> Alice Corp.'s patent claimed a form of escrowing that was well known.

Somebody told me that it was not really well known when the patent was filed. Apparently keeping shadow accounts was not really feasible without computers and networks, so such methods did not exist previously. I'm not sure how accurate that is, though. I'm not knowledgeable about that domain.