SOURCE:
Dan Bart, IPR WG Chair
TITLE:
Report of GSC-12 IPR WG
AGENDA ITEM:
Closing Plenary 7
CONTACT:
DBart@tiaonline.org
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Summary of issues and
results from GSC-12 IPR WG
Dan Bart, TIA
Chair IPR WG
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Meeting overview
• 37 attendees
• 14 input documents (plus some revisions) presented and discussed
• Subjects discussed:
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Report from GSC-11 IPRWG and Resolutions (Cont. 7 and 12)
Changes or items being considered in PSO IPR Policies
ITU, ISO, and IEC update on IPR
IPR Policies and Current Issues of Organizations External to GSC
PSOs/ITU
ANSI update on IPR issues in USA
Experience of practical implementation issues under existing policies,
Digital Rights Management, and IPR challenges in Standards making
and IPR Policies
Considerations for Developing or Revising SDO IPR Policies
Future of the IPR working group
• Report to Closing Plenary, Conclusions, Resolutions and
Communique
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Organizations
Participating in IPR WG
• ATIS, TTC, ETSI, TIA, TTA, ITU, IEEE-SA,
IEC SB4, EPO, ANSI, OMA, WIPO,
CCSA, ISACC, BWCI, and “Special
Guests”
Changes or items being
considered in PSO IPR Policies
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Potential items to be discussed:
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Essential Copyrights
Trademarks
Unpublished pending patent applications vs.
published patent applications
Disclosure
Consideration of policies of External Organizations
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Scope of licensing obligation
Normative Referencing
Governmental Requests
Contributions from ETSI, TTC, and oral inputs
from many, more details in the following slides.
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Changes or items being
considered in PSO IPR Policies
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Main outcome:
– TTC IPR committee addressing Software
copyright; Consistency between TTC IPR
rules and ITU/ISO/IEC common IPR rules;
and Enhancement of TTC IPR rules (Cont.
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– ETSI completed it review and updated its
Policy and Guidelines (Cont. 4r1, 5)
– TIA has made a major change in how it
handles LoAs for normatively referenced
documents
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ITU, ISO, and IEC Patent,
Software Copyright, and Marks
update
• Issues discussed:
– Participants received an update on TSB Director’s
IPR Ad Hoc group results (Cont. 02, 02a1)
• Main outcome:
– ISO/IEC/ITU-T/ITU-R have a COMMON Patent
Policy, Patent Guidelines, and Patent declaration form
– ITU-T has Guidelines on Software Copyright and
Guidelines on Marks
– ITU-T is developing an improved on-line database of
patent declarations
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IPR Policies and Current Issues
of Organizations External to
GSC PSOs
• Updates from External Organizations:
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OMA provided an oral update
A European Patent Office (EPO) contribution (Cont. 6R1)
IEEE- SA Contribution (Cont. 10, 10a1)
BWCI Contribution (Cont. 13)
• Main outcome:
– OMA decision to harmonize its policy with those of PSOs and
ITU with regard to the scope of the licensing commitment is
welcomed
– EPO has amassed a large data base of information to use in
identification of prior art, and EPO is getting drafts and technical
inputs from SDOs, a forecast of some possible futures was
presented
– IEEE has updated its policy
– BWCI is in the process of adopting an IPR Policy
– SDOs should cooperate with their PTOs
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ANSI update on IPR issues
in USA
• Issues discussed:
– New ANSI IPR Policy Committee
– FTC/DOJ Hearings, report issued (Cont. 9, 9a1)
– Rambus Decision (Cont. 14)
• Main outcome:
– No specific ANSI Contribution to this meeting
– Contributions on FTC/DOJ hearing and Rambus
Decision by the Chair for updates on some recent
events in USA
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Experience of practical
implementation issues under
existing policies
• Potential Issues that could be discussed:
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Source Code Copyrights used in Standards
Evaluation licenses on Source Code submittals
Trademarks in Standards, both SDO-owned and commercial
IPR Declarations, IPR Databases
Technical means to protect copyrights of SDOs including Digital
Rights Management (DRM) implementations
• Main outcome:
– Practical issues were covered in earlier Contributions of PSOs
related to evolving policy issues
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Considerations for Developing
or Revising SDO IPR Policies
• Issues discussed:
– ABA Committee overview (Cont. 8)
– TIA Contribution on “SDO IPR Policies, RAND/FRAND or
Compensation-Free, the impacts on Participation,
Standardization, and Innovation in the Market” (Cont. 11)
• Main Outcome
– ABA book which will useful in drafting, revising, and
understanding SDO IPR Policies to be published in August 2007
– RAND/FRAND IPR policies work for standardizers and should
be periodically reviewed, but there should be an understanding
of the various business models that drive IPR licensing
Summary
• Fruitful discussions on a range of topics
• IPR WG to meet during GSC-13.
• Time Allocation: At least half a day, same as GSC-12
and same meeting time template
• Resolutions drafting group formed, TIA Lead, look at IPR
Resolution and Cooperation with PTOs
• Input to HoDs and GSC-13 host for planning of next
meeting and allocation of time for IPR discussions
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Proposed GSC-12
Resolution
• Separate files
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Thank you
Dan Bart, TIA
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