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Old 2006-10-04
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Default Re: Stock Analyst Downgrade Of Check Point

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Originally Posted by RayPesek View Post
Doesn't Check Point say they patented the stateful firewall in the early part of the 1990's?

Maybe they should blow the dust off those papers and see if the patent is still in effect and whether they can garner some royalty payments from the other vendors claiming to have stateful firewalls.

Ray
I think the Patten might have expired now, but it was intential that Gill Shewed(sp?) who holds the patten never enforced it.
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