10 wild new patents: The future of tech?

by Gina Smith  |  May 26, 2012, 2:23pm PDT  |  Image 7 of 11

IBM: Method and Program Product for Preventing Distribution of an E-Mail Message

Among the 94 patents IBM obtained last week was US Patent 8,185,592. The patent discloses a method for sending emails that can't be forwarded to unintended third parties. This could be the latest must-have gadget for CEOs.

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Gina Smith is a NYT best-selling author and contributor writer for TechRepublic.

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Gina Smith is a NYT best-selling author of iWOZ, the biography of Steve Wozniak. She is a vet tech journalist and chief of the geek tech site, aNewDomain.net.
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