August 22nd, 2007

1998 newsgroup posts could help EFF overturn broad patent on "virtual subdomains"

Nate Anderson, Ars Technica

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Patent Busting Project takes aim at another patent as the EFF and lawyer Rick Mc Leod have joined forces to request a USPTO re-examination (PDF) of an Ideaflood patent on "virtual subdomains." According to the request, the patent in question describes capabilities that had already been implemented in Apache when the patent was filed

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