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

At 02:31 PM 8/30/2007, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

>This so-called "patent" actually is for an autoresponder, not for a spam
>filter. I think they will find lots of prior art :-)

Last year a company (K.C.) received 12 patents on various aspects of dimming LEDs using an ANSI standard dimming protocol/method. Their claim is they invented the idea of dimming LEDs using the same dimming method used for incandescent lamps and that it wasn't obvious that an LED could be dimmed.

So far, the patents haven't been overturned, but they haven't also have sued anyone like Nokia for having dimmed LEDs in their phone keypads...

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