[LINK] Patent demands by big players may backfire - Kim DotCom and two factor authentication

[Robin Whittle]

This Guardian article links to the patent.  They researched it and found
prior art and that Kim DotCom's patent had been cancelled in Europe due
to a challenge from Ericsson, one of the companies which apparently
registered similar patents around 1994:


http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/23/kim-dotcom-authentication-patents

 - Robin



On 2013-05-25 11:18 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> A case of hoisted by ones own petard - Kim Dotcom may sue Google, 
> Facebook and Twitter for patent infringement of two-factor 
> authentication, a patent he says he registered in 1999. I looked up 
> the term of US patents: 20 years.
> 
> http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/dotcom-may-sue-tech-giants-for-copyright-breach-20130524-2k526.html
> 
> Jan