Thursday, May 20, 2004
A Tale of Two Patents: "By Susan Kuchinskas
UPDATED: Google's Gmail could be a huge moneymaker for the search leader. But someone else may have thought of it first...
...Google evidently had been planning Gmail for some time. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company applied for a patent on "serving advertisements using information associated with e-mail" on June 2, 2003. On that date, Google's engineers couldn't have known that a little tiny company called Sponster had a similar idea -- and had applied for a patent on the "method and apparatus for adding advertising tag lines to electronic messages" on April 5, 2002..."
UPDATED: Google's Gmail could be a huge moneymaker for the search leader. But someone else may have thought of it first...
...Google evidently had been planning Gmail for some time. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company applied for a patent on "serving advertisements using information associated with e-mail" on June 2, 2003. On that date, Google's engineers couldn't have known that a little tiny company called Sponster had a similar idea -- and had applied for a patent on the "method and apparatus for adding advertising tag lines to electronic messages" on April 5, 2002..."
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