Is NoCat in trouble?
Tu Nguyen <[email protected]>
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Hi All: I received this posting from the unisog newsgroup. Is nocat in trouble? Any cares to comment? thank you Tu Nguyen [email protected] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:57:59 -0600 From: Tom Seto <[email protected]> Reply-To: UNIversity Security Operations Group <[email protected]> To: UNIversity Security Operations Group <[email protected]> Subject: [unisog] Wireless gateways perfigo / bluesocket. While we're on the subject of wireless gateways, does anyone have any comments on this? Tom -------- Original Message -------- Basil Baluta wrote: > Hi Tom, > > You might be interested in this article and patent. > > http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004184.html > > 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=6,636,894.WKU.&OS=PN/6,636,894&RS=PN/6,636,894 > <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=6,636,894.WKU.&OS=PN/6,636,894&RS=PN/6,636,894> > > Acacia has purchased a similar patent and is basically going around > enforcing it with hotspot consumers. Many people are contesting the > patent’s legitimacy as “it’s an obvious solution if you are skilled in > the art”. Anyway, I thought it was interesting. > > There is another open source project NoCatAuth that Acacia is > considering going after as well. > > **Basil Baluta** > > Architect > University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, MedIT > c: 403-614-8765 >