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EFF: Keeping Patents Off Public Domain, Opening ACTA

By Intellectual Property Watch

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will revoke an illegitimate patent on internet subdomains that was seen as potentially threatening to the public domain. The US patent, held by a company called Hoshiko, claimed to cover the method of automatically assigning internet subdomains, like “action.eff.org” for the parent domain “eff.org.” [...]

Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).