IPR Details
Paul Hoffman's Statement about IPR related to draft-ietf-dane-smime and Many other RFCs and drafts belonging to Verisign, Inc.

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Submitted: September 30, 2014 under the rules in RFC 3979 as updated by RFC 4879.

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I. Possible Patent Holder/Applicant ("Patent Holder")

Holder legal name Verisign, Inc.

II. Contact Information for the IETF Participant Whose Personal Belief Triggered this Disclosure

Name Paul Hoffman
Email paul.hoffman@vpnc.org
Other info

III. IETF Document or Other Contribution to Which this IPR Disclosure Relates

Internet-Draft:
draft-ietf-dane-smime ("Using Secure DNS to Associate Certificates with Domain Names for S/MIME")
Notice:
No revisions for this Internet-Draft were specified in this disclosure. The Internet-Draft's revision at the time this disclosure was posted could not be determined. Contact the discloser or patent holder if there are questions about which revisions this disclosure pertains to.

IV. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 3979 as updated by RFC 4879

A. For granted patents or published pending patent applications, please provide the following information:

Patent, Serial, Publication, Registration, or Application/File number(s)

U.S. Patent Application 20140282847
Date: 2013-11-27
Country: United States

Notes: This patent application was found though independent research, not through any communication with Verisign about the patent application.

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending No

V. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name
Submitter email

VI. Other Notes

Additional notes

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