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Network Solutions and Register.com Sued for Infringement of Domain Name Patent
by ryan is the supernicety at 2:10 pm EST, Jan 12, 2004 |
] Nizza Group, which last week
] announced that it had been issued a key internet naming
] patent, today
] announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S.
] District Court for the
] Central District of California against Network Solutions,
] Inc. and
] Register.Com, Inc. for infringement of that patent.
]
] U.S. Patent No. 6,671,714, issued on December 30, 2003,
] covers the
] issuance of URL's and e-mail addresses to members of
] groups in the format of
] "member.group.tld" and "member@group.tld" such that the
] URL and e-mail address
] differ only in that in the URL the "@" of the e-mail
] address is replaced with
] a "." in the URL. This could be bad..... |
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RE: Network Solutions and Register.com Sued for Infringement of Domain Name Patent
by k at 5:34 pm EST, Jan 12, 2004 |
ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] ] Nizza Group, which last week
] ] announced that it had been issued a key internet naming
] ] patent... my initial reaction is that the Nizza Group can suck my nizzuts. our patent system is so fucked up. |
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Network Solutions and Register.com Sued for Infringement of Domain Name Patent
by Decius at 2:12 pm EST, Jan 12, 2004 |
] Nizza Group, which last week
] announced that it had been issued a key internet naming
] patent, today
] announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S.
] District Court for the
] Central District of California against Network Solutions,
] Inc. and
] Register.Com, Inc. for infringement of that patent.
]
] U.S. Patent No. 6,671,714, issued on December 30, 2003,
] covers the
] issuance of URL's and e-mail addresses to members of
] groups in the format of
] "member.group.tld" and "member@group.tld" such that the
] URL and e-mail address
] differ only in that in the URL the "@" of the e-mail
] address is replaced with
] a "." in the URL. Thats it! There it is! That is the dumbest patent I've ever heard of! If this doesn't fit the legal definition of "obviousness" nothing does. |
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