17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Adam Shostack says:
An interesting variant of this tactic might be for the folks who reverse engineer Clipper/SkipJack to go off and patent it in *other* countries, thus making it impossible to sell or use Clipper outside of the USA.
That might work. Many other countries follow "first to file" rather than "first to invent". Perry