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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Public Key Patents
- In-Reply-To: pcl@oxford.ac.uk's message of 18 Nov 92 10:26:22 GMT
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 04:01:04
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- Oh, I don't know about that. The European public got rather a lot,
- and don't even have to pay royalties. Come to that, PKP don't even
- have a monopoly. A limited monopoly, limited to within the US, yes.
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- "The public" != "The population of the US".
-
- Excellent point. I meant "the public" to mean the abstract public
- who in the justification of patents temporarily give up their right
- to use the invention freely, in exchange for getting to see the
- details of the invention. For RSA, this just means people in the US.
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