Re: Invention Disclosure - Payment Authorization System

Hi Anders, 

I successfully downloaded the PDF with the payment authorization scheme and 
can confirm that prior art exists since 2016 11:33:42 CET, in case someone 
tries to patent that scheme. Those protocols are IMHO only patentable in the 
US. Both messages are registered now in the W3C archived mailing lists, thus 
creating evidence. 

 --Rigo
 W3C Legal counsel

On Wednesday, 16 November 2016 11:33:42 CET Anders Rundgren wrote:
> This is a defensive publication which sole purpose is describing a system in
> such a way that it makes it more difficult for other people filing patents
> for similar concepts. That is, the ideas presented are considered to be
> "prior art".
> 
> However, there are no guarantees that the concepts elaborated on here
> actually are novel, useful, or even not already covered by patents!
> 
> The core authorization system:
> https://cyberphone.github.io/doc/defensive-publications/payment-authorizati
> on-scheme.pdf
> 
> A closely related support system for dealing with party discovery:
> https://cyberphone.github.io/doc/defensive-publications/authority-objects.p
> df
> 
> Introduction: https://cyberphone.github.io/doc/saturn/
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Anders Rundgren
> Principal, WebPKI.org