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Engineer Loses SSL Patent Case against RSA and VeriSign
MeanMF writes "eWeek reports that a jury has ruled in favor of the defendants in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by an electrical engineer who clamed rights to a technology used in the SSL protocol. Not only did he lose the case, but next week the jury will rule on whether his patents are valid at all."
Doesn't Al Gore own the Patent on the internet, he created it.
Science is the Real TRUTH!
---Do you really believe the stuff you write?
Yeah, I do. Try looking through some of the software patents. There's a software design patent just recently filed by Apple (why, doesnt copyright already have precidence?), or how about "An innovative way to sell stuff over the internet".
We're ending up with patents on software utilities that normally exist. Companies/people are just applying normal principles to the internet and then slapping a patent on them.
And dont get me wrong. Many of the hardware patents are quite neat and damn near most of them deserve to stay in there. There's a few suckers like "innovative way to swing on swingset", but those are disregarded by judges who can see past that crap.
---I mean, Christ, you're worse than those people at the peace rallies. I showed up to discuss politics and world events with rational intelligent people.
I dont "do" peace rallies. And if you were smart enough to realise, they wernt "peace rallies". They were "I hate the US" rallies.
---Instead, there were like 2 or 3 socialist scumbags who didn't know the different between the White House and White Castle, and they were spewing forth such idiocy thru their megaphones that I just left. I was disgraced.
And guess what? Do you know who paid for all those demonstrations?? Do you? It was the National Communist Party. Now lets see... who's against us in this new war.. Russia. Interesting, dont you say.
---You wanna know why there's no peace? Because the stupidest of the stupid always seem to get the microphone.
I've forgot more than you'll ever know boy. Every situatuion isnt the nice, peachy world you want it to be. And if I'm right, you were one of those peace mongers too, eh?