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Re: Patents and IETF

2003-04-25 02:43:19


--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.




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