On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Paul Vixie wrote:
You mean like:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/about/
no, i was thinking of the promise not to sue, rather than the promise to
disclose the possibility of suing.
You mean like:
Cisco is the owner of US published patent applications 20050154872 and
20050154873 and one or more pending unpublished patent applications
relating to the subject matter of "Transport Layer Security (TLS) Session
Resumption without Server Side State"
<draft-salowey-tls-rfc4507bis-01.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.
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This is from one of Cisco's IPR disclosures...the first I found. Seems
pretty clear (for legal-ese) to me.
Chris.
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