Digicash Patents

[Tim May]

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 10:44  AM, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>
> Since lots of the important bits are supposed to expire next year, the 
> patents may or may not be useful.
>
> On the other hand, if they can be gotten clear, someone could get a 
> running start, I suppose, especially if they made a partnership deal 
> with First Data of some kind, and, if First Data was active in that 
> partnership, leveraging their other connections in the funds-transfer 
> business, that could be interesting.
>
> On the other other hand, :-), it's entirely clear that people could be 
> developing code right now in anticipation of the patent expiration and 
> go live with some kind of land rush when it's possible to do so.

Some people expected a "land rush" when the main RSA patents expired 
several years ago. Parties were even thrown. The land rush never 
happened.




--Tim May
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