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From: john@hpcvlo.HP.COM (John Eaton)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: Silly patents
Message-ID: <1290005@hpcvlo.HP.COM>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 11:21:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 24 11:21:23 1987
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<  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.
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It will hurt you to distribute copyrighted material without the notice but
not patents. The "patent pending" stamp seen on many products is a legal
non-requirement and really only put there to bluff the competition.



John Eaton
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