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From: Jonathan Haas
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 17:04

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Question:

How can someone (PKP) patent a mathematical algorithm?
Has this patent yet been challenged in court? It seems
to me that it would be like trying to patent the Pythagorean
Theorem.

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