[39855] in Cypherpunks
Re: Patents and trade secrets was: Encryption algorithms used in PrivaSoft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Futplex)
Fri Sep 22 04:28:25 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 04:27:01 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: <199509220519.BAA02311@frankenstein.piermont.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at Sep 22, 95 01:19:37 am
From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
David Van Wie writes:
> It just moves the prior art date from the date of invention to the date
> of filing the patent application.
.pm writes:
> Can you explain that? It doesn't make much sense...
I'll ask a more specific question:
What happens if the chronology goes like this ?
(0) Alice invents a snaffleblort.
(1) Bob invents a snaffleblort.
(2) Bob files for a patent on a snaffleblort.
From what you said, it would appear that Alice's prior art won't count when
it comes to considering the validity of Bob's patent claim. Is that correct ?
-Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
