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Technology & Science

Jan. 12, 2000

Reining in Cyber Rustling

Patents on Internet innovations promise to create a new type of prospecting for entrepreneurs.

By Richard S. Gruner
        Like the gold rush-era '49ers of yesteryear, today's business innovators are prospecting with new tools on a new frontier. E-businesses based on new business methods are proliferating on the Internet. As creative entrepreneurs stake out these modern types of businesses on this new horizon, patents are increasingly the preferred tools to prevent the poaching...

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