Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

[Dan Hollis <goemon () anime net>]

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