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RSA patent

Revision as of 21:14, 17 August 2009 by Ciaran (talk | contribs) (External links: * [http://progfree.org/Newsletter/programming.freedom.11.html#rubin Software Patent = Protection Racket], 1995 by Paul Rubin, using RSA as an example)

The RSA patent covers an encryption algorithm which was used in secure communications.

This patent was the result of a lot of research and it was innovative. It was not possible to overturn the patent by any form of re-examination. The RSA patent is thus a good example of why we need to exclude software from patentable subject matter if we want to be free of harmful software patents.

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