Trend Micro Sues Barracuda Over Open Source Anti-Virus

[Jason Ede]

When was the TREND software patent granted in the States? Surely if MailScanner was available to American citizens before that date then it should be classed as prior art overe there too?

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From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Julian Field [MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk]
Sent: 30 January 2008 10:40
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Subject: Re: Trend Micro Sues Barracuda Over Open Source Anti-Virus

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MessageLabs certainly always used to run McAfee.
So far, software patents still don't exist in the EU at all, so I'm not
remotely worried :-)

- --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote:
> stop panicing Jules ;) I am sure all is going to work out well. Trend are only doing it because people are not buying their AV product to use on SMTP gateways, and see it as a big earner.  Wonder how it would effect people like MessageLabs? Then again they potentially use Trend AV and others so would be paying some money for scanner licensing.
>
> Regards,
>
>

Jules

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