I already have a spam patent in that describes authentication for spam
control.
There are two halves to the patent, one half describes a software scheme.
This is a set of defensive claims covering issues like crypto based
authentication, various accreditation schemes etc. I don't beleive a scheme
in that area would be at all successful if encumbered, the plan is to
license any claims under this part of the patent as RAND-Z (reasonable,
non-discriminatory and zero-license free, in effect what people mean by RF
but leaving open the option of standard poison pill requirements)
The second part of the patent is a trusted hardware based scheme, that will
have a licensing fee if granted, but it does not relate to SPF. It may well
turn out that those ideas are in any case better suited to entirely new
applications rather than email.
We don't have to add claims to a patent, we might be able to just add
description. It would still count as prior art and it would still provoke an
interference claim.
Phill
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Barr [mailto:mbarr(_at_)mbarr(_dot_)net]
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 7:01 PM
To: spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [spf-discuss] patenting SPF
I think that might actually work- I'd be in :-) Not that some of us
have done enough to really justify being named, but if you're
offering... some of us will take you up on it.
Matthew
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Matthew Barr
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Datalyte Consulting, LLC.
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On Jan 30, 2004, at 4:02 PM, Thomas H Jones II wrote:
On the IP side of things I think a patent would be a good
idea if only
to prevent somebody else from submarining us. If the big
ISPs could
pony up a few grand each we could patent it and then license it
royalty-free or however things get put into the public domain.
Another avenue to pursue would be a PayPal type of fund. You could
offer something like "contribute $50 to the funding of the
patent and
be named in the patent". You'd only need 200 contributors, then.
-tom
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