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Re: Public Key Patents

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From: Mark C. Henderson
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:18
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In article <1992Nov19.034123.22748@meiko.com> philip@meiko.com (Philip Gladstone) writes:
>ken@halcyon.com (Ken Pizzini) writes:
>: Which makes the the RSA patent even more absurd -- foreign nationals
>: get to use RSA for free while US taxpayers, who helped fund the
>                                   ^^^^^^^^^
>: research, have to pay royalties!
>
>Actually, for RSAREF, you need to be more than a US taxpayer -- you
>need to be a US citizen resident in the US. 

or a permanent resident in the U.S. actually resident in the U.S.,
or a Canadian citizen resident in Canada.

Mark
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From: mch@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)
Subject: Re: Public Key Patents
Message-ID: <1992Nov19.181832.2688@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Surrey, British Columbia, CANADA
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