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Re: [John Gilmore ] RSA claiming trademark on all uses of "RSA" to describe algorithm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Thu Apr 1 18:07:49 1999
To: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
Cc: perry@piermont.com, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: Message from Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
of "Thu, 01 Apr 1999 13:58:38 PST." <199904012159.NAA17050@terra.com21.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 17:12:49 -0500
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
> I should think that the approach taken by generic pharmaceuticals, 'compare
> with Brand X,' would also suffice to get around RSA's trademark issue.
Or, "compatible with brand X" or "interoperates with brand X"..
- Bill
