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Re: Your chance of the year to change software patent law

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From: Ed Vielmetti
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1991 19:38
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From my comp.archives collection.  If someone has a place to publicly
store (and make available via WAIS or anonymous FTP) these classic
patent articles let me know and I'll get them for you.  This msg is
kind of sketchy.

Original-From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Original-subject: Re: Imagine if you couldn't use compress any more

The text for patent "4,558,302 Dec. 10, 1985 Welch" can be ftped from
uunet.uu.net as pub/lzw-patent.Z

Original-From: liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Dan LaLiberte)

(mentions a patented marching cubes algorithm, anyone know about
that?)

Original-From: jim@RSA.COM (Jim Bidzos)
Subject: Re: rpem: Simple Privacy Enhanced Mail system

(RSA's efforts to squash Mark Riordan's "rpem")

        Cryptographic Apparatus and Method
        ("Diffie-Hellman") .......................... No. 4,200,770

        Public Key Cryptographic Apparatus
        and Method ("Hellman-Merkle") ............... No. 4,218,582

        Cryptographic Communications System and
        Method ("RSA") .............................. No. 4,405,829

        Exponential Cryptographic Apparatus
        and Method ("Hellman-Pohlig") ............... No. 4,424,414

I think there's full text of the backing store patent hanging around
too.

-- 
Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com
       MSEN, Inc. 628 Brooks Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 741 1120
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