[Cryptography] [FORGED] Re: craig steven wright

[Peter Gutmann]

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill at hallambaker.com> writes:

>There are many reasons to think the patent applications would fail. Not least
>the fact that the core technology was published on this list six years ago.
>Any pre publication voids a UK patent application.

Nothing voids a US patent application, including the fact that what you're
trying to patent has already been patented by someone else.  Unless lots of
publicity forces the USPTO to reject the applications, I don't doubt that
at least of them will be rubberstam^H^H^Hissued.

Peter.