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Name Your Price? Walker Digital places IP portfolio for licensing/purchase.

By Stuart Soffer on

This morning I received an email from ICAP - Ocean Tomo informing that they are the exclusive broker for about 700 patents in the Walker Digital portfolio.  Presumably in the portfolio is the Priceline 'name your price' patent.  I wonder if William Shatner, television advertising persona for Priceline and formerly Captain Kirk of Startrek, is going to be doing some 'patent price chopping.'

I looked at the 371 patents currently assigned to Walker Digital at the USPTO, a large number of which are Internet e-commerce patents.  Also curious in that portfolio are 30 patents by Bruce Schneier, Internet security expert.

I'm trying to track down the exact list of patents offered for review.

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