[Mimedefang] More patent stupidity

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Friday, May 13, 2005 5:24 PM -0400 "David F. Skoll" 
<dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:

> http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/13/HNtrendmicropatent_1.html
>
> "The Trend Micro patent explains technology that scans e-mail and
> Internet data transfers for viruses at gateways and servers, before
> the data arrives at a desktop computer."
>
> Does anyone have prior art for gateway virus scanning prior to 1997?



<http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm>

Enter number 5,623,600.

Can I patent a mousetrap now by just saying I have "a system in which
a trap can be placed, a mouse can enter it, and the trap will close
in the event that a mouse is detected"?  I thought I had to say how
it worked.

Joseph Brennan