Re: RSA patents in EP limelight

Holger Blasum wrote:

> The exhibition by the European Patent Office in the 
> European Parliament tomorrow highlights the RSA (US4200770)
> and DH patents US4405829 on public-key cryptography. 
> 
> One obvious line of attack of course is that this was 
> research by academics who would have done without the patent 
> too (just to get published) and that it was in the air at that
> time (eg Pohlig/Hellman). And of course there is 
> http://swpat.ffii.org/pikta/xrani/schnorr/index.en.html and 
> Flinn's critique http://www.cyberlaw.com/rsa.html
> Other suggestions?
> 

One could point to the Irish company Baltimore Technologies, which 
thrived at the time of the dot-com boom (though it has subsquently 
faded), which was able to get oing only becuase the RSA patents did 
/not/ apply in Europe.