On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@vpnc.org> wrote: > ... > How could that clarity possibly be achieved? Again, this is a serious > question.
a. offer a bounty for successfully getting sued by Certicom or other for infringing on EC patents. this would need to be sufficiently large to offset perceived risk of damages in litigation. b. encourage a sufficient adoption of various EC applications into closed and open source products. the larger the crowd the stronger the claim of clarity over scope of patent coverage. c. defer judgement for a sufficient period of time to allow potential action by patent holders to take place or be assumed not actionable. ... or wait for all relevant patents to expire. note that a sufficient period of time may extend beyond expiration for some safe duration of months/years. those excessively risk averse are taking path #2 it seems. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
