I hope you don't mind paying him royalties the next time you send an e-mail. Seems someone forgot to patent the method we all use to send mail over the net, you know.... snipped-for-privacy@someISP.com , so guess who jumped in a couple of years back and filed a patent on it...
Patent office entry:
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It seems that Mr. Weyer (a lawyer by trade) has quite an extensive record of filing patents for things he didn't personally have any part in "inventing", then suing the users of said inventions.
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This time, Ford got screwed (and sued) by "his" Mycolor patent.
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