Re: RSA letter to ISOC

I'm not an IPR expert, so please excuse me if this is a dumb question:

At 11:33 AM 9/26/97 -0700, Steve Dusse wrote:
> > [...] to the extent
> > RSA has any copyright interest or claim on the S/MIME specification [...]
> > resulting from contributing authorship or otherwise, RSA hereby relinquishes
> > and disclaims any such interest or claim thereto and contributes them to the
> > public domain.
My question:

Does this mean that that RSADSI's patent control over the RSA *algorithm*
is being relinquished?

GK.
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