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• Quote:Originally Posted by d4NjvRzf   I think this is one reason some companies regularly leak details of what projects they are up to. By regularly reporting on your progress, you reduce the risk that someone else comes up with a similar product in…

  in Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses Comment by dskoll February 2014
• Quote:Originally Posted by Paul Robinson  I use one regular address but what I do is add a date/time code at tne end, and I can see if someone is shopping it around. That is an adequate but flawed implementation. Our implementation generates rando…

  in Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses Comment by dskoll February 2014
• Quote:Originally Posted by luzi However, your canit product looks a bit older than the brandnew ningo.me  Well, yes. Our product is much older than the one you are advertising. But that's a good thing... the older the better if you're trying to pr…

  in Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses Comment by dskoll February 2014
• Quote:Originally Posted by ItsTheInternet   Hasn't that changed in the US now? I understand it's now first-to-file. Not a patent lawyer myself though!  The US has changed to first-to-file to be in line with most other jurisdictions. However, the fi…

  in Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses Comment by dskoll February 2014
• @Tallest Skil: Our Locked Addresses feature is not patented because I am philosophically opposed to software patents. Secondly, under patent law, prior art does not need to be patented. You merely need to show that an invention has been invented …

  in Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses Comment by dskoll February 2014
• Quote:Originally Posted by Tallest Skil   And you’re confident that you have this as a patent and there’s no difference whatsoever in Apple’s proposed implementation?  I am confident that our Locked Addresses feature implements most of the claims in…

  in Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses Comment by dskoll February 2014
• I am not a patent troll. We did NOT apply for a patent for our Locked Addresses feature since we do not believe in software patents. I merely sent the prior art to the USPTO to PREVENT Apple from being granted a patent. You can Google "CanIt Anti…

  in Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses Comment by dskoll February 2014
• We have prior art. Our CanIt anti-spam system has had a feature called Locked Addresses that does exactly this (only in a better-designed way) since 2005. I have filed an application with USPTO outlining our prior art.

  in Apple wants to stop, track down spammers with automated disposable email addresses Comment by dskoll February 2014