IBM gets a patent on "out-of-office" e-mail messages--in 2017

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: March 1, 2017 at 2:47:28 PM EST
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] IBM gets a patent on "out-of-office" e-mail messages--in 2017
>
>
> IBM gets a patent on "out-of-office" e-mail messages--in 2017
>
> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/effs-stupid-patent-of-the-month-ibm-claims-ownership-of-out-of-office-e-mail/
>
>      The "invention" represented in the '842 patent is starkly at
>    odds with the real history of technology, accessible in this
>    case via a basic Google search. EFF lawyer Daniel Nazer, who
>    wrote about the '842 patent in this month's "Stupid Patent of
>    the Month" blog post, points to an article on a Microsoft
>    publicity page that talks about quirky out-of-office e-mail
>    culture dating back to the 1980s, when Microsoft marketed its
>    Xenix e-mail system (the predecessor to today's Exchange.)
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