Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:22:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scary lawsuit Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970827160829.341p-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199708271854.OAA05098@hda.hda.com>
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On Wed, 27 Aug 1997, Peter Dufault wrote: > When the patent is issued is manipulatable. Companies develop > "stealth patents" and drag out the patent process for years (even > decades) by filing addenda and then get the patent when the process > is in use. It was filed May 2, 1994 but there is a reference that it is partly a continuation of an earlier abandoned patent application filed April 30, 1993. See http://www.uspto.gov/ for details, search for patent number 5,581,764. rdist claims to originate in 4.3BSD, which beats either date by a healthy margin. -john
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