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Re: Attorneys: RSA patent invalid
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (C. Harald Koch)
Thu Jul 17 20:46:44 1997
To: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
cc: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ricochet.net>, cryptography@c2.net
In-reply-to: johnl's message of "Wed, 16 Jul 1997 21:08:30 -0400".
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From: "C. Harald Koch" <chk@tor.securecomputing.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 19:38:11 -0400
>
> The first is very risky because the reexamination isn't a court proceeding,
> just a patent office adminstrative thing, and if they decide the patent's
> good after all, that strengthens the presumed validity of the patent. The
> other two are very expensive.
Which is exactly why most companies decide to just pay the licensing fees.
Patent terrorism is alive and well...
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