Re: [CFRG] OCB patents are abandoned; freely usable
Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> Sat, 27 February 2021 00:41 UTC
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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 16:41:03 -0800
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Subject: Re: [CFRG] OCB patents are abandoned; freely usable
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On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 8:31 AM Salz, Rich <rsalz= 40akamai.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote: > Quoting from a posting to the cryptography mailing list, > https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2021-February/036762.html > : > > On 2/16/21, 9:19 PM, "Jon Callas" <jon@callas.org> wrote: > > . . . > > The deal, which is publicly verifiable from the PTO, is that he > stopped paying the PTO upkeep fee, and so the patents are all now > abandoned. I wrote him because I went to the PTO to check on expiry dates > and saw that and thought "huh?" about it. He verified that it was > intentional as a way to put the matter to bed without license games. > > > In case it isn't obvious to someone, the "he" is Phil Rogaway. – M -- "Well," Brahmā said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent person requires only two thousand five hundred." - The Mahābhārata
- [CFRG] OCB patents are abandoned; freely usable Salz, Rich
- Re: [CFRG] OCB patents are abandoned; freely usab… Michael Sierchio
- Re: [CFRG] OCB patents are abandoned; freely usab… Phillip Rogaway
- Re: [CFRG] OCB patents are abandoned; freely usab… Benjamin Beurdouche