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		cookiecaper on March 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EBay Files Patent Application for Bitcoin Currency... Note that this is still just an application for a patent. It may get denied (but probably won't).

ChuckMcM on March 9, 2014 [–]

Actually I think it will likely be denied. The claims are overly broad.

wmf on March 9, 2014 | [–]

And then eBay will refine the claims until they get accepted.

ChuckMcM on March 10, 2014 | | [–]

And when the claims are so narrow as to be accepted, they will be easily worked around to avoid infringement.

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