> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:23:55PM -0800, Carl Malamud wrote: > > My fishing expedition is this: > > > > Have other people received a lot of these "when did you first" > > queries? If so, would you send me a private note? I promise not > > to use your name without your permission and will summarize my > > results for the list if there interest. > > You don't fool me, Carl. Who's trying to invalidate your patent on > finding prior art to defend patents? :-) The sad thing is now I have to go search and see if somebody actually did that. There was indeed a patent granted to two lawyers on a method for writing patents, if you can believe it. For those interested in a summary ... a dozen or so people sent me notes responding that they frequently or infrequently receive such queries. Regards, Carl _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf