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  1. Comment - Certicom Patent Suit Against Sony Threatens to Unravel AACS

    (Jun 3, 2007 - 9:31 PM)

    > Certicom's claims have not yet been tested in Court,
    > so you cannot say there was any theft. Read those
    > patents: they are ridiculous (obvious, too broad,
    > having prior art, etc).

    ...but NSA decided to pay up ($25mil) anyways; and Bruce Schneier says the opposite. So, dunno. They are likely to have something here.

    Not *every* patent is ridiculous, though many are.

    > Until recently Certicom claimed that it had not sued
    > anyone over its patents. It was just a business
    > decision, not that they are nice boys. A too early
    > lawsuit would have scared away many potential users.
    > Waiting until there are enough users to make it very
    > expensive to switch over to another encryption
    > scheme is just mean.

    Well, Certicom is a company of 120 people, with some 5-10 who you can consider the management team. So, who is the Machiavelli? The only candidate, CEO for the last 5 years has just been fired. So no, conspiracy theory wouldn't work.

    The timeline makes a lot of sense: end of 2003 they receive a first validation of their patents from NSA; 2004-2005 they update their strategy for licensing model. 2005-2007 they try to license. Now they go to court with those who refused for two years or more.

    If you need a conspiracy theory anyways, how about this: a cowardly CEO refused to be aggressive in enforcing the patents, until angry board and shareholders got rid of him and started doing it...

  2. Comment - Certicom Patent Suit Against Sony Threatens to Unravel AACS

    (Jun 3, 2007 - 9:17 PM)

    Without a product??? What's this, then?

    http://www.certicom.com/...action=product,sbcrypto