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Re: Boingo awarded patent for hotspot access
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:31:01 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "William Stucke" <William () zanet co za> Date: June 24, 2009 3:24:22 AM EDT To: <dave () farber net> Subject: RE: [IP] Boingo awarded patent for hotspot access Hi David,
This patent highlights our commitment.
Unless the patent is for something other than indicated in the article, this patent rather highlights the stupidity of the US Patent Office, which has
issued patents for many other things that are by no means original inventions, including the children's swing, recently.Of the many things claimed in this patent, only interchanging data between an access point database on the client device and on a central server seems
vaguely original. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,483,984.PN.&OS=PN/ 7,483
,984&RS=PN/7,483,984They're in good company. The Australian Patent Office accepted a patent for
the wheel ... Kind regards, William Stucke -- William () qpop co za Cell: 083-308-0700 After Hours: 074-333-0109 ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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