IBM Seeks Patent For Separating Business, Web Code
http://techdirt.com/articles/20040120/1229222.shtml
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From: Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 10:18 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Yipes! Not another stupid patent decision
Patent granted December 30, 2003... we have been using the "www" scheme
since around 1997. Would fall under prior art, I think.
At 02:41 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote:
>* USPTO grants Calif. lawyer patent over entire WWW naming scheme
>
>In the can you believe it department: United States Patent No.
>6,671,714 grants Frank Weyer of Beverly Hills, California full
>rights to: 'A method for assigning URL's and e-mail addresses to
>members of a group comprising the steps of: assigning each member
>of said group a URL of the form "name.subdomain.domain"; and
>assigning each member of said group an e-mail address of the form
>"[EMAIL PROTECTED];"' I wonder if TBL will get involved in
>this one, like he did with the Eolas plug-in patent.
><http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,o6r,1,k219,iauc,5c3o,5mhs>http:/
/nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,o6r,1,k219,iauc,5c3o,5mhs
>Geek.com, Jan. 20, 2004
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