[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:02:03 GMT
> From: "Paul Ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [funsec] TrendMicro goes...
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [email protected]
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> - -- Nick FitzGerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Has Trend ever tried to enforce this patent against (originally UK 
> company?) Integralis (or various of the other companies that have 
> subsequently owned that IP)??
> 
> See also:
> 
> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1998_Jan_26/ai_20173448
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> - - ferg
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> 
> p.s. Also, in response to [EMAIL PROTECTED] message on
> historical AV programs in the late 1980's - early 1990's:
> As Nick (and others) will attest, I was very active in that
> community back then. :-)
> 
> It bears repeating that this is not about prior art in AV
> scanning, but rather, doing so on a gateway device (e.g. appliance)
> which Trend Micro was the first to do -- hence the patent.
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My apologies for questioning you Ferg, and I do not mean that 
facetiously, but wouldn't a device such as a computer running IPCop with 
ClamAV on it count as similar to TM's patent?  And hence, prior "art"?


Sincerely,

Daniel H. Renner
President
Los Angeles Computerhelp
A division of Computerhelp, Inc.
818-352-8700
http://losangelescomputerhelp.com
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