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"Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart(_at_)bmsi(_dot_)com> writes:
You should take your research to http://groklaw.net. While originally
devoted to covering the SCO debacle, they also cover Microsoft
and software patents. The readership consists of amateur and
real lawyers.
I submitted the following story to groklaw earlier today. It hasn't
shown up yet, and I don't know if it ever will.
The patent that Microsoft has filed on the SenderID anti-forgery/spam
system has now been <a
href="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PG01&s1=684020.APN.&OS=APN/684020&RS=APN/684020">made
public</a>. There have been many questions on the <a
href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/marid-charter.html">IETF's
MARID working group</a> about whether this patent covers things like
the <a href="http://spf.pobox.com">SPF anti-forgery/spam system</a>.
In particular, there may be <a
href="http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg03939.html">prior
art</a>, and possibly even <a
href="http://www.imc.org/ietf-mxcomp/mail-archive/msg03930.html">violations
in the IETF "Note Well" disclosure requirements</a>.
-wayne