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And emerging QUIC acceleration technology is likely to be stifled by intellectual property laws. Intel has already filed (in 2019) for a European patent that s
by fiberoptick 7y ago
And emerging QUIC acceleration technology is likely to be stifled by intellectual property laws.
Intel has already filed (in 2019) for a European patent that seems to claim inventorship of the generic concept of hardware offloading (as it applies to QUIC)
https://data.epo.org/publication-server/pdf-document?pn=3541044&ki=A1&cc=EP&pd=20190918 https://data.epo.org/publication-server/pdf-document?pn=3541...
- spritecranberry 7y agoHow ironic. If you listened to HN, you'd think that Europe was so pro-consumer, unlike those silly Americans who keep granting Stupid Patents to Evil Bigcorps.
- stainforth 7y agoIs this instance of a patent good or bad?
- jeltz 7y agoBad, since it is an obvious idea that any engineer in the field could come up with.
- fiberoptick 7y agoBad, in my view. (Although I am not a lawyer, and would definitely appreciate input from one here!) Hardware offload of a network protocol is an extremely generic concept and this patent seems to describe that concept (without any kind of novel mechanism or implementation details).