Re: [Re: [ga] GoDaddy:

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

I believe you can challenge the filing of a patent before it is issued. 
 Consult a patent lawyer, it ought to be a straightforward process.

--Sotiris Sotiropoulos

Loren Stocker wrote:

>John,
>
>Ditto. I was doing this in 1997 as were others, those who usually beat me to
>the punch:(  Can we write the USPTO before this non-sense is issued? It's WAY,
>WAY too hard to fight it later.
>
>Does anyone know the assigned examiners name, address, and deadline? This
>should be stopped at once due to obviousness, as well as prior art.
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Loren
>
>Marc Schneiders <marc@fuchsia.bijt.net> wrote:
>John I guess this is one of your jokes? I can't put it in such nice words
>as the lawyer who wrote this fine text, but what this patent application
>describes I was doing already in late Spring 2000. I can't prove it. I
>didn't tell other people how to do it. But other people also did do it,
>and didn't tell other people how to do it. (The exact time of the release
>of expired names wasn't to be found on the net until last year, I think.)
>You know why? Because telling others would increase competition. Not
>competition for these services, but for good domains. And because it seems
>impossible to patent something like this to anyone with a little common
>sense, so the only protection available is keeping it silent.
>
>The fact that so many people 'invent' functionally the same scripts at the
>same time shows it is not worth a patent. They could try for copyright on
>their specific script. If that is still worth anything as such now with
>the WLS.
>
>  
>


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