[73979] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign vs. ICANN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Thu Sep 9 19:12:08 2004
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:01:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
To: Matthew Sullivan <matthew@sorbs.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4140DE43.1010207@sorbs.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
