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Red Hat Claims Patent On SOAP Over CGI

Posted by kdawson on from the wash-your-mouth-out dept.

WMGarrison writes "US Patent 7453593 claims command-line processing by a web server of SOAP requests, resulting in XML responses, from and to a remote client. The HTTP Common Gateway Interface (CGI) operates precisely as described in Claim 1. If you POST a SOAP document and return an XHTML response or a SOAP document, this infringes Claim 2, since both XHTML and SOAP are XML languages. This patent thus claims to own the processing of SOAP documents by CGI programs."

2 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. Thanks for the spam link by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Informative

    All of the various "free patents" sites are pure spam. The USPTO, like many other patent offices around the world, lets you view patents online for free - including free from ads.

    In this particular case, you can read the patent here, straight from the horse's mouth.

  2. Their patent policy is worth reading... by Denny · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html

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