Also, suppliants are bound under oath to disclose all the prior art that they know of. Arguably, after reading this thread, they have to forward it to the patent office.
-----Original Message----- From: "Stephen Farrell" <stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie> Sent: 10/29/2014 12:48 PM To: "Don Blumenthal" <dblument...@pir.org>; "Rubens Kuhl" <rube...@nic.br>; "Florian Weimer" <f...@deneb.enyo.de> Cc: "dns-privacy@ietf.org" <dns-privacy@ietf.org> Subject: Re: [dns-privacy] Verisign patent disclosure The quoted thread looks to me like nearly-very-good prior art. If it had said the same for 2LDs or more generically for any number of labels then it'd be very good prior art. But the existence of really really good prior art has in the past not been enough to stop the USPTO so I wouldn't hold out that much hope of something sensible happening there. Perhaps it'd be more likely that the applicant might decide to not bother pursuing something for which it turns out there is good prior art, which can actually be a fine outcome as an abandoned application is a pretty good IPR declaration really;-) S. On 29/10/14 19:43, Don Blumenthal wrote: > I'm reaching into the recesses of the brain to when I taught intellectual > property (the other IP) law for non-lawyers in an undergrad program that had > an arts and design program. The interests were more toward copyright and > trademark but we talked about patent a little bit. > > All parts of IP law are complex. Briefly though, prior art does not have to > be something that has been patented. It can, for example, have been described > in publications. > > Don > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dns-privacy [mailto:dns-privacy-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Rubens > Kuhl > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 2:50 PM > To: Florian Weimer > Cc: dns-privacy@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [dns-privacy] Verisign patent disclosure > > >> Em 29/10/2014, à(s) 16:21:000, Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> escreveu: >> >> * Brian Haberman: >> >>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2469/ >> >> <https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2010-February/005 >> 003.html> >> >> I don't think it's the only public discussion of this idea from that >> time frame. > > > What constitutes prior art, an idea or implementation of the idea ? > > > Rubens > > _______________________________________________ > dns-privacy mailing list > dns-privacy@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dns-privacy > _______________________________________________ > dns-privacy mailing list > dns-privacy@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dns-privacy > _______________________________________________ dns-privacy mailing list dns-privacy@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dns-privacy
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