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Quality Assurance - By Marguerite ReardonStaff Writer, CNET News.comTwo Internet entrepreneurs are suing Network Solutions andRegister.com for infringing on their e-mail and domain naming patent.Troy K. Javaher and Frank M. Weyer, operating under the newly formedcompany Nizza Group, on Monday filed a patent infringement lawsuit inU.S. District Court in California against the two domain registrars.The suit accuses Network Solutions and Register.com of selling rightsto Web URLs and e-mail addresses that infringe on a patent that wasgranted to Javaher and Weyer on Dec. 20, 2003. The patent covers themethod of assigning URLs and e-mail addresses of members of a groupsuch that the "@" sign is the dot in the URL. For example, if a groupused a so-called third-level URL, www.john.smith.com, the e-mailaddress would be john@smith.com.In the complaint, Nizza Group specifically indicates that NetworkSolutions and Register.com are infringing the patent by sellingrights to URLs and e-mail addresses under the .name domain. The .namedomain is called a third-level domain, because it uses an extra dot,as in the case of john.smith.name. Even though the database of .namedomains is owned and operated by Global Name Registry (GNR), it wasnot named in the lawsuit.http://news.com.com/2100-1038-5141810.html[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: How in the *hell* could those turkeyshave been granted a patent on December 20, *2003* for a system whichhas been in common use for about twenty years? What was the PatentOffice thinking about when they granted the patent in that case? MaybeI could go apply for a patent on the system of Usenet newsgroups,telling them I thought of it first when I invented the Internet, thensue all the other guys who 'infringed on my ideas'. Geeze. PAT]
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