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There's very good discussion here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100315/0058408555.shtml - one of the comments:

"Jim Vitek says on his LinkedIn profile that he is one of the named inventors. Yet there's nothing on the PTO search site - I'm a patent practitioner, and I looked. Assuming a provisional was filed in January 2008, and an application filed in January 2009, then under the 18-month rule, this application should be published in a few months, after which we'll be able to see what exactly was claimed."

you might need to search for the USPTO Patent # so you can know the updates on this.

UPDATE: Found it: http://www.google.com/patents/WO2001054478A2 and http://www.google.com/patents/US20030065565 you can ask for an update via:

https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/WO2001054478A2 and https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/US20030065565

There's very good discussion here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100315/0058408555.shtml - one of the comments:

"Jim Vitek says on his LinkedIn profile that he is one of the named inventors. Yet there's nothing on the PTO search site - I'm a patent practitioner, and I looked. Assuming a provisional was filed in January 2008, and an application filed in January 2009, then under the 18-month rule, this application should be published in a few months, after which we'll be able to see what exactly was claimed."

you might need to search for the USPTO Patent # so you can know the updates on this.

UPDATE: Found it: http://www.google.com/patents/WO2001054478A2 and http://www.google.com/patents/US20030065565 you can ask for an update via:

https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/WO2001054478A2 and https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/US20030065565

UPDATE 2:

For US20030065565 the US Public Pair lists the application as abandoned as of 09-17-2007.

There's very good discussion here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100315/0058408555.shtml - one of the comments:

"Jim Vitek says on his LinkedIn profile that he is one of the named inventors. Yet there's nothing on the PTO search site - I'm a patent practitioner, and I looked. Assuming a provisional was filed in January 2008, and an application filed in January 2009, then under the 18-month rule, this application should be published in a few months, after which we'll be able to see what exactly was claimed."

you might need to search for the USPTO Patent # so you can know the updates on this.

UPDATE: Found it: http://www.google.com/patents/WO2001054478A2 and http://www.google.com/patents/US20030065565 you can ask for an update via:

http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/WO2001054478A2 and http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/US20030065565

There's very good discussion here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100315/0058408555.shtml - one of the comments:

"Jim Vitek says on his LinkedIn profile that he is one of the named inventors. Yet there's nothing on the PTO search site - I'm a patent practitioner, and I looked. Assuming a provisional was filed in January 2008, and an application filed in January 2009, then under the 18-month rule, this application should be published in a few months, after which we'll be able to see what exactly was claimed."

you might need to search for the USPTO Patent # so you can know the updates on this.

UPDATE: Found it: http://www.google.com/patents/WO2001054478A2 and http://www.google.com/patents/US20030065565 you can ask for an update via:

https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/WO2001054478A2 and https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/US20030065565

There's very good discussion here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100315/0058408555.shtml - one of the comments:

"Jim Vitek says on his LinkedIn profile that he is one of the named inventors. Yet there's nothing on the PTO search site - I'm a patent practitioner, and I looked. Assuming a provisional was filed in January 2008, and an application filed in January 2009, then under the 18-month rule, this application should be published in a few months, after which we'll be able to see what exactly was claimed."

you might need to search for the USPTO Patent # so you can know the updates on this.

There's very good discussion here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100315/0058408555.shtml - one of the comments:

"Jim Vitek says on his LinkedIn profile that he is one of the named inventors. Yet there's nothing on the PTO search site - I'm a patent practitioner, and I looked. Assuming a provisional was filed in January 2008, and an application filed in January 2009, then under the 18-month rule, this application should be published in a few months, after which we'll be able to see what exactly was claimed."

you might need to search for the USPTO Patent # so you can know the updates on this.

UPDATE: Found it: http://www.google.com/patents/WO2001054478A2 and http://www.google.com/patents/US20030065565 you can ask for an update via:

http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/WO2001054478A2 and http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/US20030065565