[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 126 (Friday, June 29, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38771-38772]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-16018]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Institute of Standards and Technology


Prospective Grant of Exclusive Patent License

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of prospective grant of exclusive patent license.

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SUMMARY: This is a notice in accordance with 35 U.S.C. 209(e) and 37 
CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i) that the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology (``NIST''), U.S. Department of Commerce, is contemplating 
the grant of an exclusive license in the United States of America, its 
territories, possessions and commonwealths, to NIST's interest in the 
invention embodied in U.S. Patent No. 6,393,566 titled ``Timestamp 
Service for the National Information Network,'' NIST Docket No. 95-022 
to RSIP LLC, having a place of business at 8 East Figueroa, Suite 220, 
Santa Barbara, California 93101. The grant of the license would be for 
the field of use of Digital Timestamping.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cathy Cohn, National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, Technology Partnerships Office, 100 Bureau 
Drive, Stop 2200, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Phone 301-975-6691, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The prospective exclusive license will be 
royalty bearing and will comply with the terms and conditions of 35 
U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The prospective exclusive license may be 
granted unless, within fifteen days from the date of this published 
Notice, NIST receives written evidence and argument which establish 
that the grant of the license would not be consistent with the 
requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7.
    U.S. Patent No. 6,393,566 is owned by the U.S. government, as 
represented by the Secretary of Commerce. The invention is a system and 
method for

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time-stamping and signing a digital document by an authenticating party 
and returning the signed stamped document to the originator or his 
designated recipient. Messages may be received by a first ``public'' 
machine over a network, by fax, or through input mediums such as 
diskettes. The clock of the first machine is synchronized with 
Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) and can be checked for accuracy by 
anyone on the network. A second ``private'' machine, not connected to 
any network, receives the time-stamped message, applies a hashing 
procedure and provides a signature using a private key. The signed 
hashed time-stamped message is then returned. A verify procedure is 
made widely available to check the genuineness of a document by 
rehashing the document and applying a public key. The result should 
match the signed time-stamped message returned by the authenticating 
party.

    Dated: June 25, 2012.
Willie E. May,
Associate Director for Laboratory Programs.
[FR Doc. 2012-16018 Filed 6-28-12; 8:45 am]
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