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

Posted by samzenpus on from the pay-up dept.

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.

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  1. Meet Mr. Nicolas Labbit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The patent troll responsible for this nonsense, specifically the primary manager of the entity known as CryptoPeak Solutions, LLC is operated by a fellow named Nicolas Joseph Labbit, who happens to be the sole member of a "law firm" known as The Labbit Law Firm in Longview, Texas. Just thought some folks might be interested in knowing a little more about the charming young man behind this gross abuse of the legal system. HTH. -PCP