[Discussioni] Fwd: USPTO Grants Patent to WWW Naming Scheme (DNS)

[Alessandro Rubini]

Seth Johnson inoltra su patents da un'altra lista:

> Geek News - Tue Jan 20 2004
> 
> USPTO grants Calif. lawyer patent over entire WWW naming scheme
> 
>       How could Albert Einstein have ever been one of these cretins?
> 
> 
> Do you know about United States Patent No. 6,671,714?  You should.  The
> patent, recently granted to one Frank Weyer of Beverly Hills, California,
> grants the patent holder full rights to: (set italic) A method for assigning
> URL's and e-mail addresses to members of a group comprising the steps of:
> assigning each member of said group a URL of the form
> "name.subdomain.domain"; and assigning each member of said group an e-mail
> address of the form "name a subdomain.domain;" (end italic) Sound familiar?
> Well, it should, because the patent describes what is essentially one of the
> most basic, most crucial underlying structures of the World Wide Web, namely
> the domain naming system.
> 
> The concept of domains and subdomains, as well as the e-mail addresses
> associated with them, has been around for a long time but apparently has
> escaped being patented prior to now.  Meyer, a lawyer by trade, has
> capitalized on that oversight, and as of December 30, 2003, Meyer owns it.
> And now he's using it where it'll do the most good -- in court. . . . <snip>
> 
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> http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Jan/gee20040120023507.htm