[ic] divine, Inc. patent infringements

Chris Demain interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Thu Sep 26 13:01:02 2002


On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 13:05, George Osvald wrote:
> I think United States Patent and Trademark Office deserves a round of applause 
> here. They happily received the application fee for a completely general 
> description of a computer network. Funny thing is they use a system of that 
> description themselves on their own web site (Electronic Business Center). I 
> wander if they paid percentage of their profit back to divine inc. 
> The lack of any technical details amazes me. 
> 
> .........does anyone own a patent for a wheel?
>


As a matter of fact, yes.
John Keogh of Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia in 2001:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/state/2001/07/02/FFX0ADFPLOC.html


The patent:
http://www.ipmenu.com/archive/AUI_2001100012.pdf
 
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Chris Demain
Systems Administrator
Sago Networks
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