Verisign vs. ICANN
Dan Hollis
goemon at anime.net
Thu Sep 9 23:01:46 UTC 2004
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Matthew Sullivan wrote:
> Dan Hollis wrote:
> >On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> >>PS: I will patent it myself to prevent Versign from doing this.
> >Wouldnt it be beautiful if a bunch of people patented the hell out of
> >various ways to exploit dns wildcarding, thus preventing verisign from
> >doing anything useful with it at all...
> It would only be useful if those people were also in a position to
> vigorously defend said patents when (and if) they were infringed.
> / Mat
If the patent is strong enough, wouldnt some patent attorney be willing to
defend it on a contingency basis?
With the potential $$ in a patent violation judgement against verisign, I
would think attorneys would be all over it.
-Dan
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