Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
--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.
Harald,
While that is correct, he probably needs a pointer to:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2026.txt?number=2026
section 10.
Tony