Pay to Link CDs with Web

Feb 11, 2008

Pay to Link CDs with Web

Acacia Research's Disc Link subsidiary gets Dassault Systemes to agree to licences one its patents:

The portable storage devices with links technology generally relates to products sold or distributed on CDs or DVDs that include a link to retrieve additional data via the Internet.

Who'd've thought that such an obvious idea needs patent protection? Perhaps Acacia Research, a company in the business of holding patents -- 90 of 'em, by its reckoning.

You could be next on their hit list.

Link. (I hope I don't have to pay a license for this link.)

Posted at 01:36 AM in The Courts | Permalink

Comments

This prohibits burning of HTML files onto CD/DVD discs?

The main problem with software patents is the level of invention or technical "height" required to grant a patent: basically zero.

Posted by: Henrik Vallgren | Feb 11, 2008 at 03:21 AM

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