1994-09-15 - Re: RC4 compatibility testing

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From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
To: perry@imsi.com
Message Hash: b6ce43c3e55f6885cdf62d938dcb94a1a328ef8f9b794ad4ffa3701d02305868
Message ID: <199409150024.TAA15131@zoom.bga.com>
Reply To: <9409142059.AA03709@snark.imsi.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-09-15 00:25:17 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 17:25:17 PDT

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From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 94 17:25:17 PDT
To: perry@imsi.com
Subject: Re: RC4 compatibility testing
In-Reply-To: <9409142059.AA03709@snark.imsi.com>
Message-ID: <199409150024.TAA15131@zoom.bga.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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> 
> > And then latter if it was patented I would be exempt from paying
> > royalties on my product, no?
> 
> Ahem.
> 
> If an invention is successfully patented, any use you make of it
> requires royalties even if that use began before the patent was
> granted.
> 
> However, RC4 is probably not patentable at this point -- unless Bidzos
> has a "submarine patent" in process, which I wouldn't put past him.
> 
If there was considerable use prior to the patent application then there 
would be a good case to be made that it was in the public domain because
of this use.

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• 1994-09-14 (Tue, 13 Sep 94 18:38:18 PDT) - RC4 compatibility testing - ekr@eit.COM (Eric Rescorla)
  • 1994-09-14 (Tue, 13 Sep 94 20:05:32 PDT) - RC4 compatibility testing - Nathan Loofbourrow <loofbour@cis.ohio-state.edu>
  • 1994-09-14 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 13:50:41 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>
    • 1994-09-14 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 14:00:16 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
      • 1994-09-15 (Wed, 14 Sep 94 17:25:17 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
        • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 05:27:36 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
          • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 08:26:33 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
            • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 08:56:58 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
              • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 16:24:17 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
            • 1994-09-15 (Thu, 15 Sep 94 11:35:36 PDT) - Re: RC4 compatibility testing - Random Factor <sq0nk@alt.anonymous.messages>