| Unfortunately they may have more tricks up their sleeve. That is, once they get payment for one patent, effectively getting an implied acknowledgment of the merits of the (meritless imho) patent, they might then reveal their other related patents, and offer to license those for even more money. I wonder how many of these can be invalidated with trivial filings? These patents all have PayByClick Corporation as the assignee: 7,676,432: Methods and apparatus for transacting electronic commerce using account hierarchy and locking of accounts http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... 7,376,621: Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic tokens http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... 7,328,189: Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic tokens http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... 7,249,099: Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic tokens http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... 7,249,060: Systems and methods for distributing on-line content http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... 7,177,838: Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic tokens http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... 6,876,979: Electronic commerce bridge system http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... |