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Re: Lawsuits Against PKP
[email protected] says:
> 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.
>
> This one is really fascinating -- Cylink is one of the owners of PKP, along
> with RSADSI...
"Owners" is not strictly speaking the case -- they are a partner in
PKP. Since the PKP partnership agreement is secret (or at least I am
told it is secret), it is impossible to determine precisely what the
rules of the partnership are, but I had assumed that free cross
licensing had been part of it. I believe that Cylink has used RSA as
part of various security products in the past, so they appear to have
*HAD* a license. If Bruce has access to the exact language in the
suit, it would be of interest to hear what it says. (Since the court
papers are all public domain, perhaps a person with a scanner might
want to put them on line...)
Perry