Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-wing-behave-nat-control-stun-usage-00
Date: 20 December 2006
From: Rachel Albright<[email protected]>

Cisco is the owner of one or more pending unpublished patent applications
relating to the subject matter of "Controlling NAT Bindings using STUN"
<draft-wing-behave-nat-control-stun-usage-00>.

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]