--On fredag, april 25, 2003 02:47:35 -0400 Tulip Rasputin
<tulip_rasputin(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)ca> wrote:
Hello,
Have there been any patents filed in the field of routing/routing
protocols?
Yes.
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/ allows you to search on "Routing AND protocol",
and tells you that you have 14604 hits :-(
I am a little confused because we have IETF standards (drafts and
RFCs)for routing. Is there a rule which says that one cant file patents
in routing or something?
No. And the lack of such a rule is not making life in the IETF any easier.