{"id":199141,"date":"2007-09-03T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/03\/google-yahoo-and-amazon-sued-over-email-patent-the-register\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-04T04:05:00","slug":"google-yahoo-and-amazon-sued-over-email-patent-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/09\/03\/google-yahoo-and-amazon-sued-over-email-patent-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, Yahoo! and Amazon sued over email patent | The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another case of IP gone stupid, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/08\/29\/google_yahoo_amazon_sued_ove_email_patents\/\">patent troll Polaris has sued for infringing their patent on rules based mail filtering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To quote <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070829-ip-firm-accuses-google-9-other-companies-of-patent-infringement.html\">Ars Technica<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The patent, titled &#8220;Automatic message interpretation and routing system,&#8221; is unsurprisingly general. It was filed in 1998 and awarded to a company called Brightware, Inc. in 2002, and it basically describes an autoresponder. &#8220;The method for automatically interpreting an electronic message may also include the step of retrieving one or more predetermined responses corresponding to the interpretation of the electronic message from a repository for automatic delivery to the source,&#8221; reads the patent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The company, Polaris IP, has no products.  It&#8217;s an IP troll.<\/p>\n<p>Note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.procmail.org\/\">Procmail<\/a>, a rather powerful rules based email delivery agent, was released in 1990, and that auto-responders date to before 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, this will get thrown out, but if not, one hopes that the court will obey the recent Supreme court precedent, and not grant an injunction.<\/p>\n<p>Our patent system needs to be fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another case of IP gone stupid, patent troll Polaris has sued for infringing their patent on rules based mail filtering. To quote Ars Technica: The patent, titled &#8220;Automatic message interpretation and routing system,&#8221; is unsurprisingly general. It was filed in 1998 and awarded to a company called Brightware, Inc. in 2002, and it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1109,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-ip","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}