Certicom sues Sony! ⇒
1 June 2007, early morning
My cryptography professor (and a bunch of other C&O professors at Waterloo) work at that place. They have patents on all sorts of crazy stuff, mostly to do with Elliptical-Curve Cryptography.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.