[14682] in Cypherpunks
Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jun 3 11:13:02 1994
To: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jun 1994 11:03:16 EDT."
<199406031503.LAA15327@duke.bwh.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 11:06:24 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Adam Shostack says:
> An interesting variant of this tactic might be for the folks
> who reverse engineer Clipper/SkipJack to go off and patent it in
> *other* countries, thus making it impossible to sell or use Clipper
> outside of the USA.
That might work. Many other countries follow "first to file" rather
than "first to invent".
Perry
