From: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 94 08:09:38 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Lawsuits Against PKP
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schneier@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