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Re: UUNET Network Encryption Patents



> > Subject: Re: UUNET Network Encryption Patents
> > >Filed:		Sep. 13, 1994
> > >Filed:		Jan. 19, 1994

The patent also states "continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 28,437, Mar 3,
1993, abandoned"; this is the important "first date", according to the
lawyers. The papers below are after this date, and won't count as prior art.

(Anyone from that lunch BOF want to testify? <grin>)

[ ObDisclaimer: I don't represent BNTi or SCC in a legal sense; I'm just a
  software developer ... ]

> ftp.cs.columbia.edu:pub/ji/swipe-26ietf.ps is dated Apr 8, 1993.
> ftp.cs.columbia.edu:pub/ji/usenix-sec93.ps.Z is dated Aug 18, 1993.
> ftp.cs.columbia.edu:pub/ji/swipeusenix.ps is dated Sep 21, 1993.

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