Patents Represented by Attorney Anthony Laws Birch
  • Patent number: 7024387
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of automatically and anonymously buying and selling positions in fungible properties between subscribers. The specific embodiment described in the disclosure relates to the buying and selling of securities or contracts where the offer to purchase or sell the property may be conditioned upon factors such as the ability to purchase or sell other property or the actual purchase or sale of other property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Inventors: Robert Scott Nieboer, Pedro V. Balcarce, Ivan N. Zhidov, Micah James Eldred