On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 07:36 -0700, Nitzan Kon wrote: > LOL. > > Not that this sort of patent would hold anyway - there's > a ton of people who've already thought about this a LONG > time ago, and plenty of discussions to prove it (prior art). > > Any way you look at it- waste of his money, and the patent > office's time.
and yet using billing records to detect fraud is an established patent. Fax->email has prior art (published by SGI) and yet J2 still has their patent. In both situations verizon and J2 have won awards or at least had their patent affirmed in court. There are tons of examples where people file patents either because its cheaper to settle than fight (J2 for example, RTI with LCR as another) and there is an entire business model that has been based on filing bogus patents (or just buying them up cheap) and then going after people for a small settlement/licensing fee. You may not agree with it, you may not like it, but it is something that is done quite often. It is also something that every business owner has to prepare themselves for since you can end up losing money either way, especially in the US. Even if you win in court, you still lose since there is a resistance to reform the tort process, you have to pay your legal costs yourself. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel pgp key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x8AE5C721 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz