From: Richard Rager (kb8rln@penguinmaster.com)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2004 - 14:09:09 EST
>
> As many of you know, Sanctum, Inc. has a been granted a patent (United
> States Patent No. 6,584,569) describing a process for automatically detecting
> potential application-level vulnerabilities or security flaws in a web
> application.
Ok this look like you are just looking at the Introduction or the
overview of the patent. What we need are the Claim(s) only.
I believe in what Linus Torvalds said (paraphasing) "Do not read patents
at all just write code. If you break a claim in a patent it most likely
commmon knowledge or a new way of doing it."
Last time I check it is 125 US dollars per claim to file against any
patent.
Ok to kill a patent you need:
1.) Prior Art
2.) Prove that any one in that field would normally do it that why.
Example it could be argued that if this is the manual way that I did
it. A computer that does it faster can not be patented. Now if I wrote a
IA that did it with out setting off an IDS then that might be a claim
that can be well founded.
WARNING: I am not a layer and I do not like them. I have study this
subject at length because of a program that I wrote that is was said it
infringe on another patent. I did find prior art and was able to backup
my claims that I use common knowledge that was not in their claims.
Enjoy,
Richard Rager
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