IPR Details
Certicom's Patent Claim pertaining to ECDSA

• Disclosure
• History

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

Holder legal name	Certicom Corporation

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application

Holder contact name	Bruce MacInnis
Holder contact email	bmacinnis@certicom.com
Holder contact info	Director of Licensing 200 Matheson Blvd. West Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5R 3L7 T: 905-501-3821 F: 905-507-1239

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

IV. 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	This is to advise the IETF that Certicom believes it has patents pending that relate to ECDSA, namely point compression, public key validation (including domain parameter validation), and computational techniques. In accordance with the intellectual property rights procedures of the IETF standards process, assuming the relevant patents are granted, Certicom is willing to offer, upon written requests from the implementers of the ECDSA, a non-exclusive license under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions, providing the applicant provides a similar grant for the applicant's relevant patents (if any) and respects Certicom's other intellectual property.

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.

V. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name	Phillip C. Deck
Submitter email

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