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- From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
- Subject: Re: Public key patents in Europe?
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.063115.27660@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <bontchev.718919860@fbihh>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 06:31:15 GMT
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- bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Vesselin Bontchev) writes:
- :
- : The claims in patent 4,218,582 cover any use of public key
- : cryptosystems - regardless of the method used. Seems that the whole
- : idea is patented. (Please do not start a flame war about how stupid a
- : patent law that permits an algorithm to be patented is.)
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- This is claim 1 and would be damned hard to uphold since they already
- had patented a way of doing this in 4,200,770 without the sweeping
- claim.
-
- Bob
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