From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 94 07:25:17 PDT
To: Mike Ingle <MIKEINGLE@delphi.com>
Subject: Re: MAKE.MONEY.FAST
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Mike Ingle says:
> It looks like Micali struck it rich with Clipper and his key-escrow
> patents. Want to get rich? Read up on digicash, then design a digicash
> system with "escrowed identity", meaning you are untraceable until the
> government uses an escrowed key to identify you. The bank acting on
> its own cannot identify you, nor can the stores. Patent your system.
> When the government and the banks try to introduce such a system,
> threaten to sue them. They will pay you off just like they did Micali.

I'm afraid that you just published the idea, Mike, so only you can
patent it in the US during the next 12 months. Outside the US, its now
unpatentable.

Perry