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It looks like Micali struck it rich with Clipper and his key-escrow
patents. Want to get rich? Read up on digicash, then design a digicash
system with "escrowed identity", meaning you are untraceable until the
government uses an escrowed key to identify you. The bank acting on
its own cannot identify you, nor can the stores. Patent your system.
When the government and the banks try to introduce such a system,
threaten to sue them. They will pay you off just like they did Micali.

--- Mike

Mike Ingle says:
> It looks like Micali struck it rich with Clipper and his key-escrow
> patents. Want to get rich? Read up on digicash, then design a digicash
> system with "escrowed identity", meaning you are untraceable until the
> government uses an escrowed key to identify you. The bank acting on
> its own cannot identify you, nor can the stores. Patent your system.
> When the government and the banks try to introduce such a system,
> threaten to sue them. They will pay you off just like they did Micali.

I'm afraid that you just published the idea, Mike, so only you can
patent it in the US during the next 12 months. Outside the US, its now
unpatentable.

Perry

>I'm afraid that you just published the idea, Mike, so only you can
>patent it in the US during the next 12 months. Outside the US, its now
>unpatentable.

When has that ever stopped the Patent Office? I have had the bitter
experience of openly publishing an idea (a protocol for wireless LANs)
with the intent that it pass into the public domain. With much
surprise did I learn that Proxim, Inc, had filed for and was granted a
patent on the same exact thing, despite their filing date being more
than a year after the publication of my paper.

By the way, I notice that the Patent Office is taking comments until
August on whether their standards for nonobviousness should be
tightened. (Is the Pope Polish?) Here's your chance, although after
the way NIST totally ignored our comments on clipper, I don't know
what good it will do...

Phil