[Discussioni] nesscan

[Francesco Potorti`]

PATENT DISPUTE ON AUTHENTICATION SOFTWARE
Inventor and retired electronics engineer Leon Stambler is suing VeriSign, 
RSA Security, and other companies for allegedly violating his patents on 
software used in electronic transactions to let one party be certain of 
another's true identity. Although Internet security experts generally 
believe that the inventor's patents merely imitate work previously done by 
Stanford and MIT cryptographers during the 1970s and 1980s, intellectual 
property lawyers predict that the retired engineer's effort may very well 
be successful.  Attorney Jack Russo says: "Patent litigation is fairly 
expensive and you will see people settle for what seems to be large sums." 
(New York Times 20 Feb 2003)
http://partners.nytimes.com/2003/02/20/technology/20NET.html