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 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
