Lawsuits Against PKP
Hal
hfinney at shell.portal.com
Mon Aug 1 08:09:38 PDT 1994
schneier at chinet.chinet.com (Bruce Schneier) writes:
>Two lawsuits were recently filed in federal court, northern district
>of Calif, which may cripple Public Key Partners.
>Cylink v. RSA Data Security, C-94-02332-CW, June 30, 1994, San Fran.
>It alleges that the RSA patent is invalid. RSA Data had denied Cylink
>a patent license.
>Schlafly v. Public Key Partners, C-94-20512-SW, July 27, 1994, San Jose.
>It alleges that almost all of the PKP patent claims are invalid and
>unenforceable.
That makes my day. The name Schlafly sounds familiar (I don't mean
Phyllis). Roger? Does anyone know a crypto person with this name?
It would be interesting to know whether anyone else could join in these
lawsuits on a class-action basis, or at least send support to the plaintiffs.
Hal
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