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Legal threats scuttle RFID flaw demo
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2007-02-27

A security researcher scheduled to present information on issues with radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology at the Black Hat Federal conference this week was silenced by security technology giant HID Global, which claimed the presentation would violate its intellectual property.

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Misunderstaning of "Patent" ? 2007-02-28
dragonfrog
This extremely seems strange to me, given what a patent is - a patent is exactly the opposite of a trade secret. It is a public document - you only get your IP protected in exchange for making public a document describing it, such that "one skilled in the art" can reproduce it once your patent expi...

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