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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. Twats by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What a bunch of patent trolling twats.

  2. Re:Can you say Prior Art? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Surely there is a boatload of prior art on this one.

    Yes, but it's more expensive to find it and take it to court than it is just to pay up.

    That's kinda the whole point of an extortion racket.

  3. Re:When will enough be enough? by Jack+Griffin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Someone needs to patent "Things that do stuff" and be done with it.