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USPTO grants Calif. lawyer patent over entire WWW (DNS) naming scheme
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:23:16 -0500
Delivered-To: dfarber+ () ux13 sp cs cmu edu Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:56:15 -0800 From: Einar Stefferud <Stef () thor nma com> Subject: USPTO grants Calif. lawyer patent over entire WWW (DNS) naming scheme X-Sender: stef () vrx net To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> Geek News - Tue Jan 20 2004 USPTO grants Calif. lawyer patent over entire WWW naming scheme How could Albert Einstein have ever been one of these cretins? Do you know about United States Patent No. 6,671,714? You should. The patent, recently granted to one Frank Weyer of Beverly Hills, California, grants the patent holder full rights to: (set italic) A method for assigning URL's and e-mail addresses to members of a group comprising the steps of: assigning each member of said group a URL of the form "name.subdomain.domain"; and assigning each member of said group an e-mail address of the form "name@subdomain.domain;" (end italic) Sound familiar? Well, it should, because the patent describes what is essentially one of the most basic, most crucial underlying structures of the World Wide Web, namely the domain naming system. The concept of domains and subdomains, as well as the e-mail addresses associated with them, has been around for a long time but apparently has escaped being patented prior to now. Meyer, a lawyer by trade, has capitalized on that oversight, and as of December 30, 2003, Meyer owns it. And now he's using it where it'll do the most good -- in court. . . . <snip>http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Jan/gee20040120023507.htm
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