Company Awarded Patent for "Digital Tickets" (was Re: GigaLaw.com Daily News, July 30, 2001)

[R. A. Hettinga]

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From: Somebody
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>
Subject: RE: Company Awarded Patent for "Digital Tickets" (was  Re:
GigaLaw.com  Daily News, July 30, 2001)
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 14:18:41 -0400

If you are aware of prior art on a patent that issues
you can send it to the PTO for inclusion in the file.

You can request a reexamination.  However, the PTO
can decide to do a reexamination on its own
if it becomes aware of prior art.

You should include the patent number on
correspondence.  Check on the PTO's webpage.
www.uspto.gov.

If a bounty is posted, you may win a bounty.
I am not sure their web page.

There is also another depository for prior
art that is software related.

You can also send it to the patent holder and
request that they forward it to the PTO.

<somebody>

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From: R. A. Hettinga [mailto:rah at shipwright.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:57 PM
To: Digital Bearer Settlement List; dcsb at ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Company Awarded Patent for "Digital Tickets" (was Re:
GigaLaw.com Daily News, July 30, 2001)



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To: Peter Wayner <pcw2 at flyzone.com>
Cc: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com>,
        Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs at philodox.com>, dcsb at ai.mit.edu,
        cryptography at wasabisystems.com, coderpunks at toad.com
Subject: Re: Company Awarded Patent for "Digital Tickets" (was  Re:
GigaLaw.com  Daily News, July 30, 2001)
From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
Date: 31 Jul 2001 13:15:08 -0400
Lines: 17

This also looks very similar to my Master's Thesis, where I even use
the term "digital ticket"!  Sheesh.

-derek

Peter Wayner <pcw2 at flyzone.com> writes:

> I discuss this in both editiions of _Digital Cash_. I wonder if this
> is prior art that reads against the patent.
>
> -Peter

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available

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The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'



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