17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Adam Shostack wrote:
Jim Burnes wrote:
| > http://jya.com/ellisdoc.htm | | Can patents be revoked due to prior art arguments?
I think its a really bad precedent to revoking patents based on the basis of secret documents released after the fact. If you believe in patents, then having your work nullifiable by government claims is a bad idea. ...
Maybe in the future this could be possible ... Let's say that NSA does hashes of all their scientific papers and timestamp them with some third party recognized company. This way NSA would be able to prove that they had an original idea even if they claim this only after someone else has reinvented it. -- Vicente Silveira - vicente@certisign.com.br CertiSign Certificadora Digital Ltda.