Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!uw-apl!srg From: srg@uw-apl.UUCP (Spencer Garrett) Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: encryption with public keys (being patented) Message-ID: <112@uw-apl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Dec-86 00:56:46 EST Article-I.D.: uw-apl.112 Posted: Thu Dec 25 00:56:46 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Dec-86 18:36:34 EST References: <3072@ihuxf.UUCP> <9001@duke.duke.UUCP> <7447@utzoo.UUCP> <230@gaia.UUCP> Organization: UW Applied Physics, Seattle Lines: 7 Summary: Patents don't mean much.... The patent office will issue a patent on just about ANYTHING. They seem to expect the courts to sort it all out. Recently an engineer I know managed to get a patent for what he thought was a novel encoding technique. This merely illustrates how out-of-touch both he and the patent office are. The rest of us have been calling his novel approach FM0 for at least 15 years.