Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Tue, 04 Aug 1998 12:23:25 +0100
Anonymous wrote:
> Schnorr also argues:
> > previous ElGamal signatures. This modification is fully covered by lines
> > 65 - 68, page 10, lines 1-5, page 11 of the US filing of my patent:
> > "Although I have described my invention by reference to particular
> > illustrative embodiments thereof, many changes and modifications of the
> > invention may become apparent to those skilled in the art without
> > departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. I therefore intend
> > to include within the patent warranted hereon all such changes and
> > modifications as may reasonably and properly be included within the
> > scope of my contribution of the art."
>
> People may differ in their opinions about the degree of novelty in the
> change from addition to modular division. It is not obvious a priori that
It is extremely interesting that sentences as flexible as the above
could be filed as patent documents. Who is going to decide on the
reasonableness and properly-ness of the said kind of inclusions?
The patent holder??
M. K. Shen
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