Re: Patent fun

[Mordy Ovits <movits () bloomberg com>]

On Friday 02 July 2004 11:53 am, dave wrote:
> Right, but that doesn't help bobsfish.com when some SCO sues them for
> patent violation. What would help them would being able to go to EFF and
> say "Hey, I'm being SCOed for this patent, can you invalidate it?" and
> EFF saying "Yes." At which point the SCOer has wasted 25K (or however
> much they paid) for their patent.

I wasn't proposing it as an alternative.  I just thought it was an interesting 
historical parallel to your idea.  It too involved an intersection of hashes 
and blind databases as a way of clouding the field of competitive authorship.  
You never knew if your idea was original, or if someone would provide the 
"key" to one of the published hashes, upstaging you.

Mordy
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Mordy Ovits
Network Security
Bloomberg L.P.

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