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Started by Allen J. Baum
Thu, 24 Sep 1987 16:05
Re: patents
Author: Allen J. Baum
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1987 16:05
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1987 16:05
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>In article <849@uhccux.UUCP> cs313s19@uhccux.UUCP (Cs313s19) writes:
>Aside from the appropriateness of the RSA algorithm itself for patenting,
>how about the manner in which it was distributed? In a paper distributed
>by MIT and in Communications of the ACM, the authors described RSA without
>any mention of a patent or pending patent.
>
>Now, I know zero about patent law, but shouldn't this place the algorithm
>in the public domain? Suppose, eg, that I hadn't read in BYTE or in this
>newsgroup that it's patented, and built some large system based on RSA.
>How can they claim I should have known it's theirs?
As long as the patent is filed within one year of publication, its valid.
There is no legal necessity for notification that a patent has been filed.
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