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by jack_trades 4835 days ago
Is this because someone forgot to patent the cc feature of email? We've been doing similar point to multi-medium translation of messages for decades. Email to email+text pager for doctors in hospitals. Surely there's a strong prior art case that invalidates this, but this is also obvious enough that it really shouldn't get through in the first place.

I am just too thick to understand IP law.

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Or BBS, or IRC status bloomberg terminals etc etc etc.

Whole thing sucks. I'm not going to read the patent.