This grant is made to help facilitate inclusion of certain patented
search address technology covering network device mapping in IETF
standards-track Management Information Base (MIB) modules. HP is
offering this search address technology to the IETF as a technique
for mapping network devices. It should be noted that the
confirmatory license mentioned is optional, since the grant of rights
is automatic.
A Grant of Rights to Hewlett-Packard US Patents 5,293,635 and 5,421,024
HP hereby covenants that it will not assert any claims in US Patents
5,293,635, 5,421,024, any continuations, divisions, or
continuations-in-part of either, or any non-US counterparts of any of
the foregoing against any party that makes, uses, sells, imports, or
offers for sale, an implementation of an IETF standards-track MIB
module that includes HP's contributed search address technology, or
any derivative of that contribution, provided that the MIB module is
employed to implement the Internet-standard network management
framework. Such grant of rights is limited in that it does not
include a right to incorporate such HP search address technology into
proprietary MIB modules.
This grant of rights will permanently terminate with respect to any
party (and to any subsidiary of a party) that asserts a patent it
owns or controls, either directly or indirectly, against HP or any of
its subsidiaries for implementation of, or operation of any system
utilizing, search address technology. The termination of rights will
occur as of the date the patent is asserted against HP.
A written confirmation of this grant, and/or a license under any
other HP patent under HP's then-current terms, conditions, and
royalty rates, can be obtained by sending a request to:
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