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What the… According to the article below, prepaid service is patented and not only that, a recent court ruling might just change the entire industry.
Last month a judge upheld a patent ruling against BCGI for helping mobile operators offer prepaid wireless solutions. Yes, that’s right. Having someone pay you before you give them mobile phone service is patented. Now, the judge has increased the fine and issued an injunction that means many carriers offering BCGI’s prepaid wireless offerings will have to stop. Yet another example of obvious patents are being used by a company that doesn’t offer anything to stop a company that actually did the innovation and brought something to market. [Get the links]
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