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Re: RSA claiming trademark on all uses of "RSA" to describe algorithm
>>>>> "Steven" == Steven M Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> writes:
Steven> In message <199903300239.SAA20582@toad.com>, John Gilmore
Steven> writes:
>> PS: The alternative, of course, is to ignore them and keep using
>> the term "RSA". Let them prove to a court that they own the term,
>> which was in use before they formed the company and which was
>> created in the traditional scientific community naming convention
>> (after the names of the inventors). Or intervene in their
>> trademark filings, saying the term has wide use in the scientific
>> and technical literature and that they're trying to
>> inappropriately monopolize it to replace their expiring patent
>> protection.
Steven> If this is to be considered, we need a long list of
Steven> scientific references from before the company was formed,
Steven> right?
... which was in 1982 (see http://www.rsa.com/about/).
Here's one. "The mathematics of public-key cryptography", Sci.Am,
August 1979.
paul
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