RE: [sa] Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-16 Thread Damian Mendoza
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Re: [sa] Spam Filter Law Suit On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: > Or tell them to go pound sand. The last Bilski ruling seems to have pretty > well torpedoed software patents, but some jerks may not have gotten the memo. Well, I'm not saying this about

Re: [sa] Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-16 Thread Charles Gregory
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: Or tell them to go pound sand. The last Bilski ruling seems to have pretty well torpedoed software patents, but some jerks may not have gotten the memo. Well, I'm not saying this about anyone in particular, as I don't want to get sued for defaming any

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-16 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 00:56 -0600, LuKreme wrote: > On Jul 15, 2009, at 3:25 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > What could be new in "spam filtering" as such in 2003? > > The Patent Office is manned by monkeys. Worse, they are ignorant More than 99% of each patent is old. The question is: Which "

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread LuKreme
On Jul 15, 2009, at 3:25 AM, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: What could be new in "spam filtering" as such in 2003? The Patent Office is manned by monkeys. Worse, they are ignorant monkeys. Have you seen the patent on swinging? Yes, as in the playground/backyard swing. -- Sent from my iPhone

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Neil Schwartzman
On 15/07/09 4:11 PM, "Justin Mason" wrote: > Hi Damian -- > > Our first impression: somebody other than us is suing somebody other > than us about a matter that may be entirely unrelated to anything we > produce. Unless we have a specific reason to believe that a specific > patent is likely to

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Justin Mason
Hi Damian -- Our first impression: somebody other than us is suing somebody other than us about a matter that may be entirely unrelated to anything we produce. Unless we have a specific reason to believe that a specific patent is likely to be enforced against either us or a downstream user (and,

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Charles Gregory wrote: >On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Damian Mendoza wrote: >> Anyone else being sued by Southwest Technology Innovations regarding spam >> filtering? It’s odd that they would name my old company (Workgroup >> Solutions) since they have very few installations (2 pe

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Charles Gregory
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Damian Mendoza wrote: Anyone else being sued by Southwest Technology Innovations regarding spam filtering? It’s odd that they would name my old company (Workgroup Solutions) since they have very few installations (2 person reseller) compared to the others named. Any opinions

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread SM
Hi Damian, The content of this message should not be taken as advice. Please seek proper legal advice. At 11:59 14-07-2009, Damian Mendoza wrote: Anyone else being sued by Southwest Technology Innovations regarding spam filtering? It's odd that they would name my old company (Workgroup Solu

Re: Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 11:59 -0700, Damian Mendoza wrote: > Anyone else being sued by Southwest Technology Innovations regarding > spam filtering? It’s odd that they would name my old company > (Workgroup Solutions) since they have very few installations (2 person > reseller) compared to the others

Spam Filter Law Suit

2009-07-15 Thread Damian Mendoza
Anyone else being sued by Southwest Technology Innovations regarding spam filtering? It's odd that they would name my old company (Workgroup Solutions) since they have very few installations (2 person reseller) compared to the others named. Any opinions or feedback? http://www.faqs.org/patents/