From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 27 14:22:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA08341 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 14:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA08332 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 14:22:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA23716; Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:22:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 16:22:14 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Peter Dufault cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Scary lawsuit In-Reply-To: <199708271854.OAA05098@hda.hda.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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