--On Friday, May 13, 2005 5:24 PM -0400 "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/13/HNtrendmicropatent_1.html
"The Trend Micro patent explains technology that scans e-mail and Internet data transfers for viruses at gateways and servers, before the data arrives at a desktop computer."
Does anyone have prior art for gateway virus scanning prior to 1997?
<http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm>
Enter number 5,623,600.
Can I patent a mousetrap now by just saying I have "a system in which a trap can be placed, a mouse can enter it, and the trap will close in the event that a mouse is detected"? I thought I had to say how it worked.
Joseph Brennan
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