Intellectual Property
Mar. 26, 2002
Judge Rejects Online Music Patent, Citing Its Public Use
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Oakland appears to have dealt a major blow to a San Francisco company's attempt to assert a patent to a widely used process that allows Internet browsers to sample parts of songs offered for sale on Web sites such as Amazon.com.
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