Claims
The application presented two types of claims—method and so-called paradigm claims. Claim 1 was representative of the method claims:
A method of marketing a product, comprising:
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- developing a shared marketing force, said shared marketing force including at least marketing channels, which enable marketing a number of related products;
- using said shared marketing force to market a plurality of different products that are made by a plurality of different autonomous producing company, so that different autonomous companies, having different ownerships, respectively produce said related products;
- obtaining a share of total profits from each of said plurality of different autonomous producing companies in return for said using; and
- obtaining an exclusive right to market each of said plurality of products in return for said using.
Claim 24 was representative of the so-called paradigm claims and read:
A paradigm for marketing software, comprising:
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- a marketing company that markets software from a plurality of different independent and autonomous software companies, and carries out and pays for operations associated with marketing of software for all of said different independent and autonomous software companies, in return for a contingent share of a total income stream from marketing of the software from all of said software companies, while allowing all of said software companies to retain their autonomy.
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