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Originally posted by CCFool
Nice to see you around FTP!
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Always vigilant... I didn't want to post this story yet til I got some more confirmation..since i didn't get a scan of the letter, just the typed letter.. but it does match what you posted...
Many people have been waiting to see when IdeaFlood would surface with the pop-up patent, but instead, they chose to try their first swing with the subdomain patent.
The slashdot.org crowd will have a field day with this one.
For those amateur prior art searchers (like me), need to find instances of people using subdomains prior to August 1998.
I haven't dived too far into the patent, but that it does appear to be bogus, since WWW started commercially around 1994, and DNS was before that... so there should be enough prior art to show the use of subdomains (there are probably more specific claims and I am oversimplifying things right now).
Fight the High Waters!