Re: Do procmail and spamassassin violate this "patent"?

People can patent near on anything, there are safeguards though. The biggest ones are Prior Art and Obviousness.

The moment they try and exercise this patent they will be blown out of the water, however you can also contact the USPatent Office with a statement of prior art proof. They will investigate for a couple months and invalidate it.

Jeff

Igor Chudov wrote:
> Read this jaw dropping article about how someone "patented" what has
> been done by procmail for many, many years.
>
> http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201802746
>
> ``The method and system detailed in the patent describes a way "for
> automatically interpreting an electronic message including the steps
> of (a) receiving an electronic message from a source; (b) interpreting
> the electronic message using a rule base and case base knowledge
> engine; and (c) retrieving one or more predetermined responses
> corresponding to the interpretation of the electronic message from a
> repository for automatic delivery to the source."''
>
> Let's see, spamassassin interprets electronics messages and uses a
> rule base to retrieve predetermined responses such as "spam" or "ham".
>
> I do not know if I should laugh or cry, any suggestions?
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Received on Thu Aug 30 16:59:03 2007