More patent fun was Re: UK patent office horror gallery

This is even more fun (and even more scary):
http://zgp.org/pipermail/p2p-hackers/2005-January/002304.html

I'd be surprised if they don't have a UK equivalent.

Given that it costs a million pounds (~ $1.8M) to get it repudiated even
if you HAVE prior art, how many of the p2p companies are going to
challenge it rather than pay the 1% or whatever it is of turnover?

BTW, did anyone check the RFCs? I think the URN RFC mentions an MD5
scheme.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:54:14AM +0000, Toad wrote:
> Just thought I'd send some light entertainment to freenet-chat to
> distract from the heavy lifting going on on tech.
> 
> http://kwiki.ffii.org/UkHorrorGalleryEn
> 
> We probably violate GB2329310, GB2350213 and GB2328297. All 3 are from
> IBM but probably aren't part of the lucky 500. I doubt they'd come after
> _us_ though. :)
> 
> Emacs probably violates GB2312973
> 
> Mozilla probably violates GB2340001 (depending on the scope of claim c),
> and GB2364408 (along with most other browsers), GB2348576, and possibly
> GB2356780.
> 
> A lot of UK universities probably violate GB2321120.
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