-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <v03102807b0be18de66e0@[208.129.55.202]>, on 12/17/97 at 07:11 PM, Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net> said:
At 7:14 PM -0200 12/18/1997, Vicente Silveira wrote:
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.
I believe the GATT we signed prohibits so-called submarine patents which are filed or issued significantly after their date of inception, frequently due to delaying tactics by the filer in the patent office. If so, no gov't newly filed claims should affect the issued patents.
Fuck GATT!! This is one of the reasons that I opposed GATT as it subverts the Constitutional powers of Congress to International bodies that I had no say in electing!! (even if I did I don't want some fuckup from the UN or the EEO determining US law.) Do not take this as an advocacy for submarine patents, as it is not. Personally I hope that the patent issue will be a big enough of one to piss Washington off enough to pull out of GATT!! - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNJmVWY9Co1n+aLhhAQKd5AP9FmeejE29ispYj4q6jPrAQXxNKq4N9ity cGl+kzekFk6lX24hE5JWrKlvgZDXvVj7OCf+FeBKKxN6ri3wk5kCX3DiG5jI48qG q6j8f0jGxtXRMtogvr+b7imgefqKOZTPG0U/sCK1d8sAj1GInBm+tcOGGyxki/Fi zWgcn2syY68= =OWlS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----