A brief look at the patent, and I have to wonder what the heck on the web does not infringe on this patent? Which, of course, gives an idea for another tactic - to find as many other technologies as possible that also infringe on this patent, and hand that research to them. Should they refuse to follow up, you may be able to claim that they are not enforcing their patent, thus you may use it at will. If you can show, for example, that Lotus Domino Go does something similar when a Lotus Notes database is behind it, you might find a deep-pocket ally ;-) (I would estimate that IBM has about equal likelihood of: fighting the patent, licensing the patent, and licensing it in such a way to donate it to open-source. Just based on past patent and open-source behaviour.)

Differently risky is to argue that the patent is invalid because it is not non-obvious to the average practitioner in the field. Kind of needs you to find a number of "experts" to pay to the stand.

Have you talked to FSF? They may be able to help find prior art or even lawyer funding, especially if you're in the US.

In reply to Re: Looking for old Perl CGI code by Tanktalus
in thread Looking for old Perl CGI code by ton

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