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My understanding (IANAL) is that prior art always counts if it's one year (or more) before the filing date. The provisonal only matters in that it establishes a date of invention, (prior art counts if it's before the date of invention, even if that's only one month prior to filing).
The patent was filed 1998-08-13, so anything prior to 1997-08-13 counts (if I'm right).
Since all a registry would need to do to beat this is locate a server in a country that doesn't recognize software patents and relay it's queries through the box, I don't see much comming of this patent other than I'll will towards Verisign if they attempt to enforce it.
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Re:Prior Art
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No. The provisional application establishes an effective US filing date that is applicable to all claims finding support in the provisional. Now, on the assumption that the claims are supported in the provisional, the 102(b) date for prior art is one year prior to the filing date of the provisional application (as that is the effective US filing date).
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