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From: shibumi@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.misc
Subject: Re: public key encryption and RSA patent status
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Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 17:39:22 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 19 17:39:22 1987
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Reply-To: shibumi@well.UUCP (Kenton A. Hoover)
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In article <7335@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes:
>You can patent anything that you can convince the patent office to
>issue you a patent for.

The patent office will issue for almost anything that hasnt yet been invented
and that meets the 'what can be patented' standard.  The strength of your
patent is almost always only determined through litigation.


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