Re: Acacia Internet Access Redirection
chris neitzert <[email protected]>
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I've been following this on Bawug, here, and /. IANL, yet, I can think of a handful of prior art that could nullify this silly patent. yet it appears to me that nocat has them by a month if we go by the date the patent was awarded. http://web.archive.org/web/*/nocat.net ... chris Jim Thompson wrote: > Jacob S. Barrett wrote: > >> Today I received an information packet from Acacia Technologies Group >> informing me that I was in volation of their patent on "IAR" [1]. IAR >> is a US Patent 6,226,677 [2]. That packet suggest that I must license >> their technology or face legal action. Has anyone else received this >> same extortion letter? >> >> The claims the the patent text lead me to believe they don't have much >> to stand on. If I read the abstract and claim one correctly then it >> doesn't cover a system that doesn't change the destination address. >> Any solution that uses the IPFW fwd [3] rule would not modify the >> destination address and therefore does not meet claim 1. I'm I >> correct in my logic? >> >> What are your takes on this matter? >> >> References: >> 1) http://www.acaciatechnologies.com/technology_iar.htm >> 2) >> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,226,677.WKU.&OS=PN/6,226,677&RS=PN/6,226,677 >> >> 3) >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-stable&format=html >> > > > IANAL, and this isn't legal advice. If you want a legal opinion (and > such things are good if you're staring down the barrel of an > infringement case, since it could get you out of a "willfull > infringement" case), you should buy one, from a lawyer. > > All that said, this is covered elsewhere. I answered similar questions > on BAWUG yesterday: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/wireless%40lists.bawug.org/msg06739.html > > Glenn and Nancy are reporting on same as well: > > http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004184.html > > Nigel Ballard has received a letter as well. > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > NoCat mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nocat.net/mailman/listinfo/nocat >