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task #224: Altavista's Planned Patent Lawsuits

Submitter:  Hugo Gayosso <hgayosso>
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Category:  Patent Database Should Start On:  Wed 06 Jun 2001 04:00:00 AM UTC
Should be Finished on:  Sun 10 Jun 2001 04:00:00 AM UTC Priority:  5 - Normal
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From: Hugo Gayosso <qztf7k@powertrain.mpg.gm.com>
Subject: Altavista's Planned Patent Lawsuits
To: -email is unavailable-
Date: 17 Jan 2001 12:37:57 -0500

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/01/17/1534254&mode=thread

Altavista's Planned Patent Lawsuits

         [ Patents ] Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 17, @11:34AM
         from the oh-thats-just-peachy dept.

         caledon wrote in to tell us a story about AltaVista planning
         a bunch of lawsuits to enforce patents on things like
         Spidering and Indexing. In the article, David Wetherell of
         CMGI says "If you index a distributed set of databases-what
         the Internet is-and even within intranets, corporations,
         that's one of the patents. We did a press release on this
         with a list of six or ten of the key areas that the patents
         cover." I guess patent lawsuits are their best corporate
         strategy since they no longer can make a good search
         engine. There's a few other bits in there about CMGI, but who
         cares about CMGI?






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