Re: Acacia Internet Access Redirection

If a maintainer would drop me a personal email, I would like to point out
some additional differences that might help. I would post them but don't
want to give away any ammunition.

Doug


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacob S. Barrett" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:00 PM
Subject: [NoCat] Acacia Internet Access Redirection


> 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
>
> -- 
> Jacob S. Barrett
> Chief Technology Officer
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