RE: [Asrg] US Spam patents: Partial list

At 06:32 AM 6/12/2003 -1000, Peter Kay wrote:

>IMHO: as an a holder of a anti-spam patent pending, I think its best to
>let IPR holders approach us. Otherwise you put yourself in the
>unenviable position of "authority" on patents. If you just say "these
>are the IPR claims that have been submitted to us" that makes it clean
>and simple, not to mention easy to maintain.

In some cases this would not be true. Take MailBlocks, for example - they 
are claiming patents on all C/R systems. They have not approached, and 
since their IP is of very general nature, thus we must approach them to 
solicit a submission of IPR claims which is what I have done. Otherwise, we 
might be working on a standard only to find out that it is patented. As for 
the patents that are covering every nook and cranny of anti-spam, I am 
agreeing with you. It would be an impossible task to catalog all patents in 
the world.

Therefore, I am suggesting that we should have the following policy:
1. Solicit input from IP holders on very broad business methods patents 
such as the MailBlocks patents.
2. Request that all members of the group that have IP, submit information 
about it.
3. Accept submissions from IPR claimants that are not part of the group as 
they send them.

P.S. BTW, Peter, it would probably be prudent that you let us know some 
details on your IP. Feel free to use the template 
(http://www.solidmatrix.com/research/asrg/asrg-ipr.html).

Yakov

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