IPR Details
Certicom's Statement about IPR claimed in RFC 3446, RFC 2409, draft-ietf-tls-ecc-12, draft-ietf-ipsec-ike-auth-ecdsa-05, and draft-ietf-ipsec-ecp-groups-02

Update this IPR disclosure
Submitted: October 6, 2006 under the rules in RFC 3979.

Note: Updates to IPR disclosures must only be made by authorized representatives of the original submitters. Updates will automatically be forwarded to the current Patent Holder's Contact and to the Submitter of the original IPR disclosure.

Updates

Updated by

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

Holder legal name Certicom

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application
Holder contact name Tony Rosati
Holder contact email trosati@certicom.com
Holder contact info

VP of Intellectual Property Licensing
5520 Explorer Drive, 4th Floor
Mississauga, ON L4W 5L1
T: (613) 254-9265

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

Internet-Draft:
draft-ietf-tls-ecc ("Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) Cipher Suites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)")
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.
Internet-Draft:
draft-ietf-ipsec-ike-ecp-groups ("ECP Groups For IKE and IKEv2")
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.
Internet-Draft:
draft-ietf-ipsec-ike-auth-ecdsa ("IKE and IKEv2 Authentication Using the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA)")
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.
RFC:
RFC2409 ("The Internet Key Exchange (IKE)")
RFC:
RFC3446 ("Anycast Rendevous Point (RP) mechanism using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)")

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

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. Pat. No. 5,761,305
Can. Pat, Appl. Ser. No. 2,176,972
U.S. Pat. No. 5,889,865
U.S. Pat. No. 5,896,455
U.S. Pat. No. 5,933,504
U.K Pat No. 9510035
Can. Pat. Appl. Ser. No. 2,176,866
E.P. Pat. Appl. Ser. No. 96201322.3
U.S. Pat. No. 5,999,626
Can. Pat Appl. Ser. No. 2202566
E.P. Pat. Appl. No. 97106114.8
U.S Pat. No. 6,122,736
Can. Pat. Appl. Ser. No. 2,174,261
E.P. Pat. Appl. Ser. No. 96105920.1
U.S. Pat. No. 6,141,420
Can. Pat Appl. Ser. No.2155038
E.P. Pat. Appl. Ser. No. 95926348.4
U.S. Pat. No. 6,336,188
U.S. Pat. No. 6,487,661
Can. Pat. Appl. Ser. No.2174260
E. P. Pat. Appl. Ser. No. 96105921.9
U.S. Pat. No. 6,563,928
U.S. Pat. No. 6,618,483
U.S. Pat. Appl. Ser. No. 09/434,247
U.S. Pat. Appl. Ser. No, 09/558,256
U.S. Pat. Appl. Ser. No. 091942,492
U.S. Pat. Appl. Ser. No. 10/185,735
Country: US, Canada, EP

Notes: Dates granted: 1998-06-2;1996-05-16;1999-03-30;1999-04-20;1999-08-03;1995-05-18;1996-05-17;1996-05-17;1999-12-07;1997-04-17;1997-04-15;2000-09-19;1996-04-16;1996-04-16;2000-10-31;1995-07-31;1995-07-31;2002-01-01;2002-11-26;1996-04-16;1996-04-21;2003-05-13;2003-09-09;1999-11-05;2000-04-25;2002-07-18;2000-7-01

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

Has patent pending No

V. Licensing Declaration

The Patent Holder states that its position with respect to licensing any patent claims contained in the patent(s) or patent application(s) disclosed above that would necessarily be infringed by implementation of the technology required by the relevant IETF specification ("Necessary Patent Claims"), for the purpose of implementing such specification, is as follows(select one licensing declaration option only):

Licensing See Text Below for Licensing Declaration
Licensing information, comments, notes, or URL for further information

It is important to clarify the situation stated in the preceding paragraph regarding
certificates. If a CA creates certificates that use Certicom intellectual property then Certicom would expect this entity to obtain license from Certicom, which will be granted on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Certificates acquired from a licensed CA may then be used in any of the above protocols on a royalty free basis, i.e. without further payment to Certicom.

The reasonable terms and conditions of this license, are contained in the license
document that Certicom intends to make available on its web site. This royalty free license is restricted to the use of the protocols listed above utilizing the
ECC options in the specified drafts and restricted to NIST curves P256, P384, and P521 only. The IKE and IKEv2 protocols must be used in combination with IPSec in this license grant. The above list of protocols will be amended from time to time in order to keep the documents current.

The license granted does not extend, either explicitly or implicitly, to other IETF
protocols.

Should those end users requesting this royalty free patent license also have patents containing claims that are necessary and essential in the implementation of the above protocols, Certicom’s grant of the royalty free license will be conditioned upon the grant to Certicom of a reciprocal license under such end user’s necessary and essential claim(s).

Note: The individual submitting this template represents and warrants that he or she is authorized by the Patent Holder to agree to the above-selected licensing declaration.

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Submitter email

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