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- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Public key patents in Europe?
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 12 Oct 92 22:03:52 GMT
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- In <bontchev.718919860@fbihh> bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
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- >Well, so I am asking those of you who are "in Europe": do you have any
- >information about the above? Could you tell me in which countries
- >exactly public-key cryptography is patented and which are the patent
- >numbers? Thanks in advance.
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- My understanding, from reading comp.patents, is that RSA is unpatentable in
- countries other than the USA, because it was published (in Scientific
- American, no less) before the patent was applied for.
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