Jdared Montet, a 48-year-old computer scientist, assures us, with supporting patents, that he was the inventor of the secure internet payment system used since by the two multinationals. He is summoning them today before the Paris tribunal de grande instance.
José Montet, Martinican computer scientist
He attacks two behemoths. José Montet is claiming no less than 960 million euros from two multinationals: eBay (an online auction site) and Paypal (an online payment site). This Thursday, the Martinican and his lawyer summons the two multinationals before the Paris tribunal de grande instance. Indeed, with his lawyer, the computer scientist decided to move up a gear. “We exchanged letters for almost two years but they keep me going in circles. Until today, they are unable to prove to me that they were there before me ”.
At the heart of the dispute, secure online payment software. At the end of the 1990s, at a time when internet commerce was booming and where, at the same time, bank card fraud was in full swing, José Montet was thinking, in his corner, about a "simple and effective system" for prevent fraud. "There were indeed a few securing procedures, but they were either very expensive to implement, or cumbersome like the Merka box with which the Internet user always had to move around".
The computer scientist would then have had a very simple idea, "but it was still necessary to think about it", he says. To secure online payments, he is considering associating the bank card number with an e-mail in order to identify each buyer. “Initially, the customer enters his bank details and is asked for his e-mail. For all these subsequent purchases, he no longer needs to enter his card codes. As soon as it is used, an e-mail warns him »