MIT Sues Amazon Web Services Over Two Cryptography Patents
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has sued Amazon Web Services, alleging infringement of two of the university's cryptography patents, according to news disclosed on Oct. 12. The suit was filed Oct. 9 in federal court in Massachusetts. MIT says AWS infringed by buying “physical unclonable function” (PUF) technology from semiconductor design firm Synopsys, based on research by MIT professor Srinivas Devadas and his co-authors.
PUF technology, widely used in cryptography, generates unique identifiers for devices such as computer chips. MIT's complaint says customers of Synopsys's static random-access-memory PUF technology infringe its patents, and that to the extent Amazon relies on other suppliers' PUF products, those also infringe one of the patents. The university is seeking monetary damages. Amazon had no immediate comment; Synopsys, which is not a defendant, declined to comment.
MIT filed a similar patent suit against Microsoft in May, which is still pending. The back-to-back cases show universities increasingly asserting patent rights to protect the commercial value of their research.
(Source: Morningstar / Dow Jones Newswires)
Source: Morningstar / Dow Jones Newswires
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