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Subject: Re: [Patents] Microsoft Asserts Patent on Sender-ID Standard
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>> I can't find a reference to the concerned patent anywhere, so there is
>> no  way to produce anything that I would accept as serious news
>> reporting  about this issue at
>> 	http://kwiki.ffii.org/SenderID0409En
>
> It is not yet issued -- still in the application stage.

Can't you access a patent application before the patent is granted in the US?

Is that another feature of the US patent system, that we can expect to be
"harmonized" world wide?

Someone said the requirement to publish a monopoly is basically a bug, but
it is presented as a feature.

//Erik



