Re: encryption with public keys (being patented)

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From: Spencer Garrett
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 1986 05:56

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The patent office will issue a patent on just about ANYTHING.  They seem to
expect the courts to sort it all out.  Recently an engineer I know managed to
get a patent for what he thought was a novel encoding technique.  This merely
illustrates how out-of-touch both he and the patent office are.  The rest of
us have been calling his novel approach FM0 for at least 15 years.

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From: srg@uw-apl.UUCP (Spencer Garrett)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: encryption with public keys (being patented)
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Date: Thu, 25-Dec-86 00:56:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 25 00:56:46 1986
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Summary: Patents don't mean much....

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