Stambler v RSA goes to jury

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Steven Cherry <s.cherry () ieee org>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:04:36 -0500
To: "David J. Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: Stambler v RSA goes to jury

Dave, the patent trial Stambler v RSA Security et al went to the jury
yesterday afternoon; a verdict could be rendered today. At issue is
whether patents issued to Leon Stambler cover SSL, and therefore
products that use it.

I attended two days of the trial last week, my report, "Who Invented
E-Commerce?" is at 
<http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/wonews/mar03/stambler.html>.

My guess is that Stambler will lose, but every lawyer I talked with
told me that you can never be certain of the outcome when a patent
case goes to a jury.
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   Steven Cherry    <s.cherry () ieee org>
   Senior Associate Editor, IEEE Spectrum
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