1994-06-03 - Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-06-03 15:06:57 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 08:06:57 PDT

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 08:06:57 PDT
To: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Subject: Re: more info from talk at MIT yesterday.
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Adam Shostack says:
> 	An interesting variant of this tactic might be for the folks
> who reverse engineer Clipper/SkipJack to go off and patent it in
> *other* countries, thus making it impossible to sell or use Clipper
> outside of the USA.

That might work. Many other countries follow "first to file" rather
than "first to invent".

Perry





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