Re: Public key patents in Europe?

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From: Robert Cain
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 06:31

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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.)

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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