Who Is Big Baboon Inc.?

A number of my readers have contacted me looking for information about Big Baboon, Inc. Here is what I know. According to its complaint filed against Dell, Amazon, HP, Fed Ex, Honda, and others, it owns 6,115,690 and 6,343,275, patents for "Integrated Business-to-Business Web Commerce and Business Automation." The drawing depicted here is one of over 300 contained in each asserted Big Baboon patent. According to Delaware corporate records, Big Baboon has been organized there since October, 22, 1999. Apparently, the technology claimed in Big Baboon's patents was invented by Charles Wong, "an individual [and] the owner of all stock in BBC." Mr. Wong allegedly created "highly automated methods of performing business functions to provide for the operation of e-commerce with reduced requirement for human interaction and increased access to real-time synchronized information via the Web." The web site www.manta.com states that "Big Baboon, Inc is a private company categorized under Computer software development and located in Sunnyvale, CA. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $950,000 and employs a staff of approximately 10." Manta also lists the following contact information: 783 Palomar Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, Phone:(408) 328-0230.

Claim 1 of the '690 patent is drawn to "[a]n automated end-to-end business process for product sales that uses a relational database management system, the process comprising the steps of:

a first user inputting a customer payment record to the database ...;

automatically generating a customer invoice;

a second user inputting customer payment record to the database ...;

automatically determining a status of the customer payment ...; and

during each of the foregoing inputting steps, qualifying user inputs using experiential constraints, based on the then-current state of the database as a whole."

I wonder what E.F. Codd would have to say about these claims?





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