Re: Acacia Internet Access Redirection
Jim Thompson <[email protected]>
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You might as well. Your statement will mean that the message is targeted for discovery should this come down to litigation. Be carefull of giving legal advice, man, and remember that the Doctorine of Equivalents applies. At the risk of offending everyone here, this as a good an excuse as any to move on to 802.1x/WPA for gateway authentication. jim Doug Parsons wrote: > 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 >>PogoZone LLC >> >> email: [email protected] >> web: www.pogozone.com >> voice: 360-676-8772 >> fax: 360-733-3941 >>address: 114 W. Magnolia Street Suite 417 >> Bellingham, Washington 98225 >>_______________________________________________ >>NoCat mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.nocat.net/mailman/listinfo/nocat >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > NoCat mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nocat.net/mailman/listinfo/nocat