[TYPO3-dev] new us-patent for rich media applications

[Gregory Remington]

Christian Welzel wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> There was a note [1] at the german news portal heise.de
> which states, that there is a new patent 7,000,180 [2]
> in the usa that protects methods for creating "rich media
> applications". 
> The note states, that also the famous AJAX is under the
> subject of this patent.

This reminds me of an earlier discussion over patents for accepting 
automatic financial transactions via a telephone line & video screen. In 
other words we could technically be in legal trouble for running 
tt_products.

http://forums.oscommerce.com/index.php?showtopic=26299&st=80

Greg