Dear colleagues,
If you are interested in participating in the discussion of patent and IP
policy for IEEE standards, you are invited to join the on-line discussion
mentioned below.
Best regards,
Peter Ashenden
DASC Chair
-- Dr. Peter J. Ashenden peter@ashenden.com.au Ashenden Designs Pty. Ltd. www.ashenden.com.au PO Box 640 Ph: +61 8 8339 7532 Stirling, SA 5152 Fax: +61 8 8339 2616 Australia Mobile: +61 414 70 9106 -----Original Message----- From: owner-std-liaison-reps@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG [mailto:owner-std-liaison-reps@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG] On Behalf Of d.ringle@IEEE.ORG Sent: Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:25 To: stds-board-comm@IEEE.ORG; std-liaison-reps@IEEE.ORG; stds-wg-chairs@IEEE.ORG; sa-bog@IEEE.ORG; standards-staff@IEEE.ORG; jim.zyren@conexant.com; david.rosenblatt@conexant.com; michael.j.sirtori@intel.com Subject: PatCom discussion group kick-off Dear colleague, You are receiving this message either because you have expressed an interest in participating in the IEEE-SA Standard Board's Patent Committee (PatCom) email discussion group or because you have a position of leadership in the IEEE-SA that indicates that you should be given the opportunity to participate. A little background: Two stimuli have prompted PatCom to step back and undertake a complete review of the IEEE Patent Policy (see Clause 6 of the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws) as it relates to standards. [IEEE-SA patent material at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-material.html] 1. First, recent court cases have led IEEE-SA's legal counsel to strongly recommend that all standards-related IEEE patent policies, procedures, and practices be consistent at all echelons from the Bylaws to each WG's practices. A person who participates in only a single IEEE Standards Working Group must have the same view of the policy and procedures as the members of the Standards Board. 2. Second, ANSI (the American National Standards Institute) is expanding its Patent Policy into an Intellectual Property Rights Policy, which would address copyrights and trademarks as well as patents. They are also considering several changes to the existing patent policy, how it is implemented, and how compliance with it would impact a standards organization's accreditation. The bottom line is that this is a good time to exchange ideas among those of us who are most interested and affected by the IEEE policy. Our objective should be to reach agreement in principle on what the provisions of the policy should be and then to draft new text for the policy, if needed, and for a single set of implementing procedures to be used at all echelons. I invite you to participate in our discussion group, which is available at http://grouper.ieee.org/cgi-bin/netforum/patcom/a/1. User Name: patent Password: pat4um Using the web forum technology will allow more of us to be active participants and will give us more time for discussion than we would have at a face-to-face meeting. I have identified a few topics we should discuss to get us started. 1. Early Disclosure: The Patent Policy does not mention early disclosure even though it is an integral part of the ANSI patent guidelines. Should we add it to the IEEE policy? 2. Reciprocity: The Patent Policy does not mention reciprocity but it is a key consideration in the new ANSI policy. Should we add it to the IEEE policy? 3. Copyright: The current draft of the new ANSI policy includes copyright rights. Should we add them to the IEEE policy? 4. Terms and Conditions: The last PatCom meeting heard a proposal to allow discussion of licensing terms and conditions in Working Group meetings. Should we make such a recommendation? Your thoughts for other topics are welcome. Thank you for your participation, Ray Hapeman PatCom Chair **************************************************************** David L. Ringle Program Manager - Governance, Policy & Procedures IEEE Standards Activities Department 445 Hoes Lane P.O. Box 1331 Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331 TEL: +1 732 562 3806 FAX: +1 732 875 0524 d.ringle@ieee.org ****************************************************************Received on Wed May 19 17:04:36 2004
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