History for IPR disclosure
Certicom's Patent statement pertaining to SMIME

From: http://www.ietf.org/ietf-ftp/IPR/CERTICOM-SMIME

Received November 9, 1999 from
From: "Simon Blake-Wilson"



This is to advise the IETF that Certicom believes it has rights under
patents and/or pending applications which may be applicable to
specifications being developed by the S/MIME Mail Security working
group.  These include, but are not limited to, patents and/or pending
applications for cryptographic protocols, cryptographic computational
techniques, cryptographic protocol formatting, and techniques for
defending cryptographic protocols against attacks.

If part(s) of these specifications are included in IETF standards and
Certicom has patents and/or pending application(s) that are essential
to implementation of such included part(s) in said standard, Certicom
is prepared to grant a license on such included part on reasonable,
non-discriminatory terms and conditions, provided that the licensee
provides a similar grant for any relevant patents under their control
to Certicom.

Any party wishing to request a license should contact:

Bruce MacInnis
Director of Licensing
Certicom Corp.
200 Matheson Blvd. West
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada L5R 3L7
905-507-9343
Fax: 905-507-9406
bmacinnis@certicom.com