Amazon, Google, Yahoo, And Others Sued For Automating Their E-mail (InformationWeek)

Here's an InformationWeek article about this week's software patent silliness. "The lawsuit charges the companies with implementing systems that 'comprise interpreting electronic messages with rule base and case base knowledge engines' as described in the patent held by the plaintiff, 'Automatic message interpretation and routing system.'" The patent claims are quite general and could easily describe packages like Mailman.

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