If this isn’t the most asinine lawsuit (and patent), I don’t know what is…
The core of the patent is a so-called method of assigning URLs and email addresses to a specific group. Each member will have a URL in the form “name.subdomain.domain” and an email address in the form “[email protected]”. This, it is claimed in the patent, lives outside the current Internet infrastructure: “The present invention overcomes the limitations of the prior art by providing a method, apparatus and business system that allow a user to quickly communicate online with a member of a particular business, professional or other group regardless of whether the member has an internet presence (e.g. e-mail address or website) and without the user needing to know or find the internet address for the recipient.”