Legal Notice on RFC3161 Uses and their possible infringement against Glassey/Mcneil Patents(et al).

["todd glassey" <todd.glassey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lets talk about legal stuff for a minute... and I don't really need anyone
to respond to this unless they want to do so with my lawyers.

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Be advised that I am claiming there is an unauthorized identified use of
RFC3161 that appears to violate parts of the Glassey/McNeil Timestamping
patent ("Controlling Access to Stored Information" - US 6370629 and EP
0997808, et al).  As such, I am formally putting the IETF/IESG on notice
thereof.

Further, these same uses may also violate any number of other "Receipt"
patents issued (including, but not limited to, the original Fisher and Haber
patents; those of others in the Time Management and in the XML
Receipt Business), as well as other patents still in the works.

In light of this notification, please be aware that it is the responsibility
of the developers to do proper diligence prior to releasing commercial or
free services using RFC3161 as its base.

Be advised that we are currently very concerned. If any such RFC3161
application is used for evidentiary purposes or if it is used to enable
control of any access to any data, or data in any record structure,
such use may be in violation of these globally issued patents.

Obviously, in instances where such violation is evident, we will take swift
legal steps to protect our patent(s) while preventing any further
unauthorized use. This would include any violations and damages resulting
from all those responsible, even National Governments using RFC3161 for
commercial and audit purposes (including the EU and its member States).

Please feel free to have the IETF's or IESG's or any other appropriate
attorney (or Developers wishing to avoid the legal complications of an
authorized use) contact me regarding this matter for my point of service so
appropriate licensing can be arranged to protect these patents against such
infringement involving those Developer's Application Systems .

Todd Glassey
Patent Rights Owner and Inventor -US 6370629