On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 18:50 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt(_at_)gulbrandsen(_dot_)priv(_dot_)no> writes:
Simon Josefsson writes:
There is no requirement in the IETF process for organizations to
disclose patents as far as I can see. The current approach of only
having people participate, and disclose patents, in the IETF is easy
to work around by having two persons in an organization doing
different things: one works on specifying and standardizing
technology, and the other is working on patenting the technology.
How can you practically avoid the first person knowing about it?
Make sure (through confidentiality agreements) that the second one do
not talk with the first? Putting them in different continents helps.
Not relevant in this case - the participating individuals were named on
the patent applications as inventors. It would be hard to convince a
judge that they didn't know...
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