On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 the voices made Robin Lynn Frank write: > > Tony Svanstrom, on SpamAssassin-talk, noted this US patent: > > > > http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netah > >tml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=62&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&s1=spam&p=2&OS=haiku&RS=spam
> I took a bit of time to review what is on the above URL. If I were a news > editor, the headline would be: > > "Inventor" from country that ignores patents and copyrights, seeks patent for > inventing the wheel! The wheel is already patented in Australia; Melbourne man patents the wheel: <URL: http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:usJnd2dwCDQC:www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/07/02/FFX0ADFPLOC.html+%22patents+the+wheel%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en|lang_sv&ie=UTF-8 > The sad news is that there seems to be a lot of patents (pending or not) that's for very basic/general ideas; it's the current form of "domainnapping", and it might turn uggly when people start trying to enfoce these patents. /Tony -- # Per scientiam ad libertatem! // Through knowledge towards freedom! # # Genom kunskap mot frihet! =*= (c) 1999-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] =*= # perl -e'print$_{$_} for sort%_=`lynx -dump svanstrom.com/t`' _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
