[lobbying-org] Symantec patent

[Liyang Hu]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:59:05AM +0100, David Singleton wrote:
> > > Symantec have been granted a patent on heuristic virus
> > > scanning.
> > Network Associates/McAfee have had something they describe as
> > "advanced heuristics" in their VirusScan product for a good
> > while (at least a year)
> That might be nice prior art then... of course we don't know when
> Symantec filed...

How long can patent applications take at most anyway?

If you remember, F-Prot had a `heuristics' mode, back when we were
still doing our GCSEs ... (possibly long before.)

Are you sure the patent isn't much more specific than that? Press-
releases are often awfully misleading. (Being written by and for
non-technical people.)

/Liyang
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