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Re: Is PGP broken?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Mon Dec 4 17:20:12 2000
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At 9:55 AM +0100 11/29/2000, PA Axel H Horns wrote:
>On 29 Nov 2000, at 7:07, Stephan Eisvogel wrote:
>
>> Adam Back wrote:
>> > (And also without IDEA support for patent reasons even now
>> > that the RSA patent has expired.)
>>
>> Do you know when the IDEA patent will expire? I will hold a
>> small party myself then. B)
>
>The EP 0 482 154 of ASCOM TECH AG has been filed on May 16, 1991.
>Add 20 Years. If ASCOM TECH AG pays annual renewal fees to the
>respective national Patent Offices every year. Otherwise it might
>lapse earlier.
>
>Axel H Horns
There is also US patent 5214703 which was filed on Jan. 7, 1992. See
http://www.delphion.com/details?&pn=US05214703__
Arnold Reinhold
