Patently absurd
May 15, 2003
This time it is Verisign with a <anhref=“http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,560,634.WKU.&OS=PN/6,560,634&RS=PN/6,560,634">patentnon determining the unavailability of an internet domain name. See thencommentary on <anhref=“http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/13/0336206&mode=thread%3Cbr%3E">ICANNwatch.nThe only thing remotely original about it is the formatting of the resultsnin HTML and the inclusion of ordering mechanism (remember, this was filed inn1998).