[39837] in Cypherpunks
Re: Patents and trade secrets was: Encryption algorithms used in PrivaSoft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Sep 22 01:21:15 1995
To: David Van Wie <dvw@hamachi.epr.com>
Cc: "'cypherpunks'" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Sep 1995 19:48:00 +0300."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 01:19:37 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
David Van Wie writes:
> > Does this mean that prior art would no longer invalidate a patent?
>
> No. It just moves the prior art date from the date of invention to the date
> of filing the patent application.
Can you explain that? It doesn't make much sense...
.pm
