Company Claims Patent On Spam Filtering, Sues World

Posted by kdawson on Saturday July 24, 2010 @06:25AM 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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Re:Filed in 1996- Spam Filters already around by Nyder · 2010-07-24 14:57 · Score: 0, Troll

> If you're going to quote Wikipedia, why not just link to it?
Perhaps he doesn't need to. Perhaps he REMEMBERS this stuff from when it originally happened.
Many of us were computing (even online) LONG before Slashdot was around.
ya, rub your low number in.
not all of us are able to be someone's bitch for a low UID (nor care to.)

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