FW: OASIS DSS related IP issues

["Pope, Nick" <Nick.Pope@thales-esecurity.com>]

Forwarding first of two IPR statements that are awaiting to be posted.

Nick

-----Original Message-----
From: Pope, Nick 
Sent: 15 February 2007 15:45
To: 'Konrad Lanz'
Subject: FW: OASIS DSS related IP issues



-----Original Message-----
From: Dimitri Andivahis [mailto:dimitri@surety.com] 
Sent: 28 December 2006 22:13
To: Nick Pope; Juan Carlos Cruellas
Subject: OASIS DSS related IP issues

Nick and Juan Carlos,

I discussed the IPR policy issues with Surety's legal counsel,
and based on this I would like to make the following IP disclosure. 
It is a list of 8 United Stated Patents related to timestamping 
that can be found in Section 5 of IETF RFC3161.  

# 5,001,752 Public/Key Date-Time Notary Facility
Filing date: October 13, 1989
Issued: March 19, 1991
Inventor: Addison M. Fischer

# 5,022,080 Electronic Notary
Filing date: April 16, 1989
Issued: June 4, 1991
Inventors: Robert T. Durst, Kevin D. Hunter

# 5,136,643 Public/Key Date-Time Notary Facility
Filing date: December 20, 1990
Issued: August 4, 1992
Inventor:  Addison M. Fischer
Note: This is a continuation of patent # 5,001,752.)

# 5,136,646 Digital Document Time-Stamping with Catenate Certificate
Filing date: August 2, 1990
Issued: August 4, 1992
Inventors: Stuart A. Haber, Wakefield S. Stornetta Jr.
(assignee) Bell Communications Research, Inc.,

# 5,136,647 Method for Secure Time-Stamping of Digital Documents
Filing date: August 2, 1990
Issued: August 4, 1992
Inventors: Stuart A. Haber, Wakefield S. Stornetta Jr.
(assignee) Bell Communications Research, Inc.,

# 5,373,561 Method of Extending the Validity of a Cryptographic
Certificate
Filing date: December 21, 1992
Issued: December 13, 1994
Inventors: Stuart A. Haber, Wakefield S. Stornetta Jr.
(assignee) Bell Communications Research, Inc.,

# 5,422,953  Personal Date/Time Notary Device
Filing date: May 5, 1993
Issued: June 6, 1995
Inventor: Addison M. Fischer

# 5,781,629 Digital Document Authentication System
Filing date: February 21, 1997
Issued: July 14, 1998
Inventor: Stuart A. Haber, Wakefield S. Stornetta Jr.
(assignee) Surety Technologies, Inc.,

Of the patents listed above, the ones listing Haber & Stornetta 
as inventors are either owned or claimed by my organization (Surety).  
For these patents, this disclosure is done according to Section 8.1 
of the OASIS IPR policy.

For the 3rd party patents (i.e. the ones not owned nor claimed by Surety),
this disclosure is done according to Section 8.2 of the OASIS IPR policy.

Best regards,

Dimitri Andivahis





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