Comments on: Software Patent of the Moment: Autoresponders http://techliberation.com/2007/08/29/software-patent-of-the-moment-autoresponders/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sun, 27 May 2012 01:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mike Sullivan http://techliberation.com/2007/08/29/software-patent-of-the-moment-autoresponders/comment-page-1/#comment-55335 Mike Sullivan Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:45:17 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/29/software-patent-of-the-moment-autoresponders/#comment-55335 <p>Filtering and use of rules for selective autoresponse (including the use of separate prepared response files) has been one of the core functions of procmail since the Iron Age of computers.</p> Filtering and use of rules for selective autoresponse (including the use of separate prepared response files) has been one of the core functions of procmail since the Iron Age of computers.

]]> By: Mike Sullivan http://techliberation.com/2007/08/29/software-patent-of-the-moment-autoresponders/comment-page-1/#comment-39266 Mike Sullivan Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:45:17 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/29/software-patent-of-the-moment-autoresponders/#comment-39266 <p>Filtering and use of rules for selective autoresponse (including the use of separate prepared response files) has been one of the core functions of procmail since the Iron Age of computers.</p> Filtering and use of rules for selective autoresponse (including the use of separate prepared response files) has been one of the core functions of procmail since the Iron Age of computers.

]]> By: Brian Moore http://techliberation.com/2007/08/29/software-patent-of-the-moment-autoresponders/comment-page-1/#comment-55334 Brian Moore Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:51:26 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/29/software-patent-of-the-moment-autoresponders/#comment-55334 <p>Replace "wasted" with "used to get me a new yacht" and seems clear to me! :)<br><br>But yeah, we do need a simple way to do this. Would it be relatively easy to set up some "Open Source Lawyering" group that did quick rundowns on these outrageous patents? I'm not sure -- you'd think any Google lawyer with an ounce of tech knowledge could shoot it down. Why aren't these things being laughed out of court when they provide obvious prior art?</p> Replace “wasted” with “used to get me a new yacht” and seems clear to me! :)

But yeah, we do need a simple way to do this. Would it be relatively easy to set up some “Open Source Lawyering” group that did quick rundowns on these outrageous patents? I’m not sure — you’d think any Google lawyer with an ounce of tech knowledge could shoot it down. Why aren’t these things being laughed out of court when they provide obvious prior art?

]]> By: Brian Moore http://techliberation.com/2007/08/29/software-patent-of-the-moment-autoresponders/comment-page-1/#comment-39265 Brian Moore Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:51:26 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/08/29/software-patent-of-the-moment-autoresponders/#comment-39265 <p>Replace "wasted" with "used to get me a new yacht" and seems clear to me! :)</p> <p>But yeah, we do need a simple way to do this. Would it be relatively easy to set up some "Open Source Lawyering" group that did quick rundowns on these outrageous patents? I'm not sure -- you'd think any Google lawyer with an ounce of tech knowledge could shoot it down. Why aren't these things being laughed out of court when they provide obvious prior art?</p> Replace “wasted” with “used to get me a new yacht” and seems clear to me! :)

But yeah, we do need a simple way to do this. Would it be relatively easy to set up some “Open Source Lawyering” group that did quick rundowns on these outrageous patents? I’m not sure — you’d think any Google lawyer with an ounce of tech knowledge could shoot it down. Why aren’t these things being laughed out of court when they provide obvious prior art?

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