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Comments on ‘Quantum sues Riverbed over de-dupe patent’

Trying to eliminate IP redundancy?

By Austin Modine
Published Wednesday 10th October 2007 21:56 GMT

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Huh? 

By Chris C
Posted Thursday 11th October 2007 03:34 GMT

How in the hell does anyone get a patent on de-duplication nowadays? Isn't that the cornerstone of every compression technique ever invented? Oh wait, this is the U.S. Nevermind.

Huh? 

By yeah, right.
Posted Thursday 11th October 2007 04:00 GMT
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They patented a first-year computer science assignment problem and solution??

The USPTO really is the bottom of the barrel when it comes to actually reviewing patents, isn't it? Apply, get one. Pay no attention to the scads of prior art in front of the curtain.

Another patent that absolutely should never have been granted 

By Harry
Posted Thursday 11th October 2007 08:59 GMT
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It looks suspiciously like a form of CRC checking to me. People have been doing that for years and years and years and years.

Has the head of the USA patent office resigned yet as an admission of incompetence? If not, then its high time he was taken out and shot.

They will be trying to get a patent on the battle of trafalgar next.

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