Re: Is NoCat in trouble?

Jim Thompson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.nocat
Message-ID <[email protected]>
this is a question that only a lawyer should answer.



Tu Nguyen wrote:
> 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
>>
> 
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