[14683] in Cypherpunks
Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Jun 3 11:21:28 1994
To: smb@research.att.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Jun 1994 11:03:01 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 1994 11:16:17 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
smb@research.att.com says:
> Why can't they refuse to license a patent?
I was under the impression that the law obligated you to license
patents -- albeit not necessarily at an attractive price. I am quite
likely to be mistaken on this -- my memory on the topic is very
sketchy, as demonstrated by the fact that I didn't realize the
government can patent things (although I was right on copyrights.)
Perry
