Apple, Google, and Others Hit With Patent Lawsuit Over Spam Email Identification

Wow...I've never seen so many typos in a patent before. From the claims:

    A method of obtaining context information about
    a sender of an electronic message using a mail
    processing comprising the steps of

Someone accidentally a word there.

    scanning the message, usinig the mail processine
    program

I suspect none of the defendants are "usinig" any "processine" program.

    context is information about the sender or the
    message that is usefiul to the recipient

The defendants probably aren't looking for "usefiul" information.

I know people make mistakes occasionally. Heck, on a patent I was co-inventor on and so had many occasions to read the application, I missed that the title was "Program Lunch Acceleration" rather than the desired "Program Launch Acceleration". The other inventor also missed it, as did our patent attorney, and the patent examiner. We only caught it after the patent issued, and had to do some paperwork to get it fixed.

But at least that's a typo that won't be caught by a spell checker, so we had a (lame) excuse. I don't see how "usinig" or "processine" or "usefiul" would get past the patent attorney's word processor.

I recognize the name of the patent attorney--he was an undergraduate at Caltech at the same time I was, graduating about 15 years before this patent was filed. So, it isn't the case that the inventors had some elderly patent attorney who still did everything on legal pads or typewriters and wouldn't have had a spell checker.

"The InNova patent was awarded to inventor and mathematician Robert Uomini nearly 15 years ago when Internet email was still in its formative stages."

I understand the internet had a big bump in popularity in '95, but wasn't the "formative stage" of email much earlier?

Another day, another troll.