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In article <1992Dec25.060924.14629@netcom.com> tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney) writes:
>35 USC 271 (g)
>"Whoever without authority imports into the United States or
>sells or uses within the United States a product which is made by a
>process patented in the United States shall be liable as an infringer, if
>the importation, sale, or use of the product occurs during the term of
>such process patent.  

If the "process" is encryption of plaintext by a public key, then wouldn't
the "product made by the process" be:

   o The public/private key pair, and
   o Text encrypted by the public key

To cover the code, I would expect the statute to say something like, "product
incorporating the process," or "product making use of the process".  Case law
may have (mistakenly, IMHO) extended the law to include this, but the statute 
listed doesn't seem to say that.

                                             James Parker
                                             jap@cb1focus.att.com