MIT Profs Get Into Patent Fray with AskJeeves

Desco writes "Two MIT professors are filing a suit against the Ask Jeeves, Inc. search engine for it's "qestion-and-answer" interface. The Boston Herald reported in this article. The two professors, Patrick H. Winston and Boris Katz, are in the Electrical Engineering/Coputer Science and Artificial Intelligence departments respectively. Ironically, on the institute's artificial intelligence department's webpage, this article can be found on the dangers of software patents. " Thanks to sudog for this update on Yahoo!.