IT took seven years and tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, but Lawrence Lockwood was finally awarded US Patent No. 6,289,319 in September 2001.
The former San Diego travel agent believed that the patent, for an “automatic business and financial transaction processing system,'' gave him control over shopping on the Internet.
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