"A computer-implemented system is designed to assist a merchant in setting up an electronic online storefront that is customized to the merchant's business, without requiring the merchant to program. The system employs a store builder wizard to guide a merchant through a series of questionnaires designed to extract information pertaining to the merchant's business. The system further employs a page generator to create active server pages (ASPs) that form the customized storefront." - Automated web site creation using template driven generation of active server page applications<http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,263,352.PN.&OS=PN/6,263,352&RS=PN/6,263,352> (Patent link)
Anyone written a application with those requirement specs? Time to pay up those royalties....(for me, that'ld be 4 or 5 times) Taken from: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2341-microsoft-patent-trolls-salesforce It's really is a sad state of affairs when you write a fantastic app, and run the risk of getting sued because someone thought of using template driven generation of automated web site creation. Given that I write .net code, it seems incredible that I Microsoft infringing IP for creating ASP pages. Tiang p.s. In this case it's Microsoft sueing someone, in others it's Microsoft being sued by others, so I'm not calling them out specifically. It's just the whole IP/Patent law thing
