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Company Claims Patent On Spam Filtering, Sues World

Posted by kdawson on from the guess-where dept.

EvilAlphonso notes news of a "Texas" IP holding company suing 36 actual companies for violating its claimed patent on spam filtering. Techdirt deconstructs the patent itself, No. 6,018,761, which seems to amount to little more than a database lookup. It was filed in 1996 and issued in 2000 (despite the lawyers' press release claiming that it "was awarded... nearly 15 years ago"). Among the companies being sued are 3Com, Apple, Google, AOL, Yahoo, J.C.Penney, IBM, Dell, Citigroup, and RIM. Not Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, or Microsoft, oddly enough.

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  1. Re:Good luck with that one by genner · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Next I'm going to patent my method for taking a shit.

    Anyone caught shitting, is fucked.

    I have prior art, you patent is invalid.