[39784] in Cypherpunks
Re: Patents and trade secrets was: Encryption algorithms used in PrivaSoft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Thu Sep 21 16:12:01 1995
From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
To: thad@hammerhead.com (Thaddeus J. Beier)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 19:00:17 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199509210637.XAA11478@hammerhead.com> from "Thaddeus J. Beier" at 1995-09-20 23:37:03
> Now, this is all expected to change, to become more harmonious
> with the rest of the world. The changes that I've heard are
> 1) Go to first-to-file instead of first-to-invent
[...]
Does this mean that prior art would no longer invalidate a patent?
--
Shields.
