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Encrypted filing of patents sans GAK?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew R. Reusch)
Fri Feb 7 16:43:31 1997
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 14:48:19 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: areusch@grump.com (Andrew R. Reusch)
>Subject: Re: Electronic filing
>>
>> Recent comments by Ambassador David Aaron, US Special Envoy for Cryptography
>> in a January 28 speech, include
>>
>> "We have initiated ten US Government pilot projects to demonstrate the
>> practicality of key recovery as part of a key management infrastructure. One
>> pilot which may be of interest to this audience involves the electronic
>> filing of patent applications with the US Patent and Trademark Office,
>> incorporating digital signature and encryption."
>>
>> Is information on this on the PTO web site somewhere?
>See the DOCT project link on:
> http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/cio/osae/index.html
In a document with the name rdps.msw, whimsically entitled
"RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND SCHEDULE FOR THE DISTRIBUTED
OBJECT COMPUTATION TESTBED (INTELLIGENT METACOMPUTING TESTBED)
SPONSORED BY ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY/ITO
AND U.S. PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE"
one finds:
"Demonstrate major elements of electronic commerce security within the
Implementation Guide including: digital signature, secure hashing, secure
date-time stamping, and encryption."
Huh? Nothing about GAK here?
How will this stop terrorists and pederasts from filing patents?
