Blackberry enters a new era, files 105-page patent lawsuit against Avaya

Armed with 38,000 patents, BlackBerry CEO says he's in "licensing mode."

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[DaveSimmons]

snowcat-il[/url]":hlcwibku]"The '961 cryptography patent is allegedly infringed by a whole series of products that "include OpenSSL and Open SSL elliptic curve cryptography," including the Avaya CMS and conferencing systems."

So if use Open SSL in my video communication service to secure the communication in flight i'm violating their patent?

Considering SSL 3.0 draft came out in 1996 and this patent's filing date is 2001, prior art should be easy to find to defeat this patent....

Ah, but RIM patented using SSL ... on the Internet!


(yes, I know. it's a joke.)