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casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
: 
: >It has been pointed out to me that Julius Ceasar used the polynomial
: 
: >	C = M+1(mod n)
: 
: >where M are the alphabet message chunks and n is the size of the
: >alphabet.  For english n=26 which is the composite of the two primes
: >2 and 13 so I believe that prior art (very prior) has been established.
: >Any comments?
: 
: You cannot take a patent apart claim by claim. The patent
: is the combination of the claims, not a mere collection.
: 
: If I combine several well known things for the first time
: and the things have never been used in that combination before,
: I can patent it.
: 

The rule is that you infringe a patent if your object includes anything
fully covered by any one of its claims.  My object infringes only the two
polynomial claims.  If those claims cannot stand I will not infringe the
patent.  Thus my interest in finding prior art that can defeat them.

Bob
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Bob Cain    rcain@netcom.com   408-358-2007

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