Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-pwe3-vccv-13.txt
Date: 6 March 2007
From: Rachel Albright<
[email protected]>
Cisco is the owner of US published patent application 20060126495 and
one or more pending unpublished patent applications relating to the subject
matter of "Pseudo Wire Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification (VCCV)"
<draft-ietf-pwe3-vccv-13.txt>.
If technology in this document is included in a standard adopted by IETF
and any claims of any Cisco patents are necessary for practicing the standard,
any party will have the right to use any such patent claims under reasonable,
non-discriminatory terms, with reciprocity, to implement and fully comply with
the standard.
The reasonable non-discriminatory terms are:
If this standard is adopted, Cisco will not assert any patents owned or controlled
by Cisco against any party for making, using, selling, importing or offering for
sale a product that implements the standard, provided, however that Cisco retains
the right to assert its patents (including the right to claim past royalties) against
any party that asserts a patent it owns or controls (either directly or indirectly)
against Cisco or any of Cisco's affiliates or successors in title or against any products
of Cisco or any products of any of Cisco's affiliates either alone or in combination
with other products; and Cisco retains the right to assert its patents against any product
or portion thereof that is not necessary for compliance with the standard.
Royalty-bearing licenses will be available to anyone who prefers that option.
For information contact:
Dan Lang
Senior IP Counsel
Cisco Systems
408-526-6672
[email protected]
