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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 06:23:09 +0200 (CEST)
From: "Tony L. Svanstrom" <tony@svanstrom.com>
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To: Robin Lynn Frank <rlfrank-dated-1030938274.aa158a@paradigm-omega.com>
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	<SpamAssassin-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>, <tmda-users@tmda.net>
Subject: Re: [SAtalk] Re: patent on TMDA-like system
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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
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