Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight (theregister.co.uk)

yoink! writes: According to an article in The Register, corporations big and small are coming under legal fire from CryptoPeak. The Company holds U.S. Patent 6,202,150, which describes "auto-escrowable and auto-certifiable cryptosystems" and has claimed that the Elliptic Curve Cryptography methods/implementations used as part of the HTTPS protocol violates their intellectual property. Naturally, reasonable people disagree.

Comments

When will enough be enough?

[aglider]

We're just missing

"methods and devices to manipulate and store data encoded into electronic devices by means of electromagnetic field gradients"

and

"methods and devices to enable the interaction between users and electronic devices by means of electromagnetic field gradients".

and

"methods and devices to harass individuals and companies by filing, claiming and legally enforce trivial methods and devices as patentable intellectual properties"

Then we're done.

Re:Meet Mr. Nicolas Labbit

[dargaud]

If you pronounce it in franglish, it goes "la bite", which translate to "the dick".