IBM Shamed Into Giving Away Awful Patent On Email Out-Of-Office Messages

Posted by BernardSwiss on Mar 3, 2017 7:13 AM EDT
Techdirt; By Mike Masnick
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You know, when you email someone and you get back a bounce that says the person is out of the office, and that they won't be reading emails (even though they probably are reading them anyway and probably will respond anyway, because, really, who goes off email these days?). Anyway, the application for this patent was filed in 2010, way, way, way after OOO messages were quite common... ... As the EFF notes, going over the history of this patent demonstrates why the US Patent Office is so bad at this stuff.

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