Reply-To: perry@imsi.com X-Reposting-Policy: redistribute only with permission Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 15:52:36 -0400 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com> Given all the prior art, I have a solid suspicion that the patent wouldn't hold up. The existance of the publically published Diffie Hellman patent, for instance, makes it rather hard to patent the more general case. Perry Does anyone know if that patent on distributed file systems that was filed in '82 and granted sometime recently held up in court? The last I heard the guy was going around collecting royalty payments from large companies unwilling to go to court anyway. Is this the sort of thing it's easier for a small company to challenge than a big company? Phil