RE: Vulnerability-based IPS Patent

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > > "...Bruce Lehman, Patent Office commissioner through much of the 
> > > 1990s, once summed up the problem when he said, "We are the patent >>
> > > office, not the rejection office."

> Wow -- excellent news.

Yeah, it's a hell of a quote.

> > could someone who is tell me if these plans will allow
"review-before-suit" for patents already granted under the old processes?

Here's Smith's proposed "Patent Reform Act of 2005":
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.2795:

Here's the press release for it:
http://lamarsmith.house.gov/news.asp?FormMode=Detail&ID=648

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 


_______________________________________________
Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts.
https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec
Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.