Web of Trust [tm]

Gerald Oskoboiny (gerald@impressive.net)
Tue, 16 Nov 1999 01:10:13 -0500

I ordered a new toy today (Olympus D-450Z digital camera [1])
and while surfing around various sites looking for reviews,
decided to check out epinions.com to see how/if it has evolved.

They're now claiming "Web of Trust" as a trademark, with patent
pending:

http://www.epinions.com/tmnotices.html

EPINIONS, EPINIONS.COM, EROYALIES, WEB OF TRUST, WHAT'S THE
DEAL WITH, and the E logo are trademarks of Epinions, Inc.
Web of Trust is a patent-pending of Epinions, Inc.

linked from:

http://www.epinions.com/selected.html

What's the deal with that?

I note that their older previously-FoRKed page is still there,
without all the ™'s:

http://www.epinions.com/webtrust1.html
http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/sept99/0085.html

[1] http://impressive.net/people/gerald/1999/11/d450/

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Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@impressive.net>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/