Newegg Beats Patent Troll Over SSL and RC4 Encryption

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @04:49AM from the but-they-had-to-waste-a-lot-of-time dept.

New submitter codguy writes to note that a few days ago, and after a previous failed attempt to fight patent troll TQP Development in late 2013, Newegg has now beaten this troll in a rematch. From the linked post: "Newegg went against a company that claimed its patent covered SSL and RC4 encryption, a common encryption system used by many retailers and websites. This particular patent troll has gone against over 100 other companies, and brought in $45 million in settlements before going after Newegg." This follows on Intuit's recent success in defending itself against this claim.

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Re:Bye bye dice by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-28 05:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Maybe this wouldn't be offtopic if Slashdot would post an article explaining that dice is selling slashdot.
https://soylentnews.org/breakingnews/article.pl?sid=15/07/28/1433251
Quit censoring the news.