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Re: UUNET Network Encryption Patents
"Jim Thompson" writes:
> > It doesn't matter, though. The patents are invalid on their face. None
> > of this is new technology -- this stuff is all very old. Prior art
> > fully invalidates a patent.
>
> Perry, it just ain't true that 'prior art fully invalidates a patent'. (I've
> just had a discussion with that IP lawyer we have on-staff here.)
>
> Prior art is a defense to litigation, its true, but it doesn't invalidate a
> patent.
>
> The only way to invalidate a patent is to ask for re-examination
The distinction is unimportant for purposes of this discussion.
.pm
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