USPTO Orders Reexam of Trend Micro's AntiVirus Patent Based on Prior Art

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USPTO Orders Reexam of Trend Micro's AntiVirus Patent Based on Prior Art

Once again, your prior art searching on Groklaw proved useful.
The USPTO on September 16 issued an order granting Fortinet's petition to reexamine the validity of the Trend Micro patent on antivirus functionality, the 5,623,600 patent, on the grounds that a "substantial new question of patentability" exists based on prior art now being considered. Fortinet publicly acknowledges the help of the open source community, specifically mentioning the prior art searching you guys did here on Groklaw in June. The ultimate outcome is yet to be determined, of course, and that's in the hands of the lawyers now, but you guys did your part. It's a great partnership, techies and lawyers, and I thank you for working hard on this, and I hope it leads to a just resolution.

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Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew(3pm) NAME
Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew - milter to reject antivirus messages typically sent to forged "senders" SYNOPSIS
use Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew; my $milter = new Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew; my $milter2 = &VirusBounceSpew; # convenience DESCRIPTION
This module rejects messages at the DATA phase by searching for known signs of misconfigured antivirus software. An increasing problem on the Internet as of this writing is a tendency for viruses and trojans to send mail with a forged envelope from address. This is triggering antivirus warning messages back to these forged senders. METHODS
new() Creates a VirusBounceSpew milter object. The match rules are internally hardcoded and may be examined by reading the module source. set_message(MESSAGE) Sets the message used when rejecting messages. This method returns a reference to the object itself, allowing this method call to be chained. BUGS
The rules could be much simpler, but at risk of catching legit mail. A future release will simplify the regex tests. AUTHOR
Todd Vierling, <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> SEE ALSO
Mail::Milter::Object perl v5.8.8 2004-02-26 Mail::Milter::Module::VirusBounceSpew(3pm)

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