1. TTC Activities on IPR in Standards
Document No:
GSC IPR-xx
Source:
TTC
Contact:
Tetsuya Oki
GSC Session:
IPR
Agenda Item:
3.9
TTC Activities on IPR in Standards
Tetsuya Oki, Vice Chairman,
TTC IPR Committee
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2. Contents About TTC History of “IPR in Standard” issues in TTC
Activities since GSC17 (May 16, 2013)
Further study items
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3. Inter-Industry Innovation Center(I3C）
TTC Organization Chart
General Assembly
Administration
Strategy
Inter-Industry　Innovation Center(I3C）
Councilor's
Meeting
Standards
development
Board of Directors
Award Committee
IPR Committee
Promotion
Technical Assembly
Strategy Committee
18 Working Groups
5 Advisory Groups
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4. TTC Document Structure
Category
Document type
Definition
Normative
Standard
Stable Technical Specification
Technical Specification
Provisional Technical Specification
Informative
Technical Report
Technical Information Document
Survey Report
Report of survey by committees
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5. History of study on IPR in TTC
Year
Month
Event
1988
June
Establishment of IPR Committee
1989
May
IPR Policy specified
Oct
- Operation Procedures specified
- DB for submitted Statements introduced
2001
Alignment with New Document Structure
2002
Major revisions to the procedures and texts
Alignment with new operational structure of TTC
2003
Apr
Revised definition for reciprocity
2005
Copyright Treatment specified
2006
Mar
Revised IPR Policy and Operation Procedures
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6. History of study on IPR in TTC (cont’d)
Year
Month
Event
2007
Dec
Revised Operation Procedures
2009
July
Revised Provision of IPR Committee
2010
June
Draft Revised Operation Procedures completed
2012
Feb
Revised Copyright Treatment approved
2013
Observers from MIC and ISO TMB joined as regular participants
Prof. J. Fujino, Tokyo University of Science joined the committee as an invited member.
Aug.
JPO joined the committee as an observer.
2014
Feb.
ARIB joined the committee as an observer.
Nov.
Mr. Tetsuya Oki was nominated as VC.

7. External Activities of TTC on IPR since 2004
Nov – July 2004: TTC’s Declaration Form aligned with that of ITU-T.
May 2004: Participated in GSC9 held in Seoul.
Aug. – Sep. 2005: Participated in GSC10 held in Sophia Antipolis.
May – June 2006: Participated in GSC11 held in Chicago.
July 2007: Participated in GSC12 held in Kobe
May 2008: Discussion with IEEE-SA
July 2008: Participated in GSC13 held in Boston
July 2009: Participated in GSC14 held in Geneva
Dec. 2009: Joint workshop with ETSI IPR Committee
Aug. – Sep. 2010: Submitted a contribution to GSC15 in China
Jan. 2011: Discussion with ITI on IPR in standards 7

8. External Activities of TTC on IPR since 2004 (cont’d)
Dec. 2011: Participated ITU-T-GISFI IPR Workshop in Delhi.
Oct. 2012: Participated and submitted a contribution to GSC16bis in Geneva
Oct. 2012: Participated the ITU Patent Round Table in Geneva
Oct. 2012: Participated and submitted a contribution to ITU-T TSB Director’s Ad hoc Group on IPR in Geneva
Dec : Held the IPR seminar (58 participants)
May 2013: Participated GSC17 held in Cheju, Korea
Jan through to Feb 2015: Participated ITU-T TSB Director’s Ad hoc Group on IPR
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9. Current status of TTC’s IPR handling
IPR (Industrial Property Right) is being handled.
Trademark not handled.
Only the copyright of TTC Standards and Specifications considered, not other types of documents.
IPR Policy specifies basic principles. (TTC Board of Directors approves and publishes IPR Policy.)
Operation Procedures specify detailed procedures regarding IPR Statements and their maintenance, including IPRs owned by non-members. (IPR Committee approves and publishes Operation Procedures.)
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10. CURRENT ITU-T RULES vs TTC RULES
Common Patent Policy
The Policy for the Handling of Industrial Property Rights
Patent
Common Patent Guidelines
Operation Procedures for the Handling of Industrial Property Rights
Software Copyright
Software Copyright Guidelines
(FFS)
Guidelines related to the inclusion of Marks in ITU-T Recommendations
(FFS)
Trademark
Right to copy for standardization related purposes
Copyright
Copyright Treatment
Note – TTC is a recognized SDO under Recs. A5 and A.6. 10

11. Submission of IPR Statements in TTC
DB for IPR Statements available at TTC Web
For TTC Standards 163 (1988 – March )
For TTC Technical Specifications 30 (2001 – March. 2015)
(Note) Here, “IPR” stands for Industrial Property Right.
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12. Activities since GSC17
A new invited member (Professor), and Observers from JPO and ARIB joined as regular participants
Number and variety of participants have been further increased, which would lead to more fruitful discussions in the future
New Vice Chairman, Mr. Tetsuya Oki, has been nominated.
Monitored with interests IP High Court’s ruling for the rejection of injunction regarding RAND encumbered patents, as well as the limited damages considering valued contributions of the SEP.
A new balanced approach regarding SEPs has been discussed in TTC, which would lead SEP owners to a patent pool. However, no agreement has been reached yet.
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13. SSO’s New Contribution for SEP Issue
Under Studying
SSO’s New Contribution for SEP Issue
Responsibility of Standard Setting Organization
Standard setting is regarded as pro-competitive under the Competition Law, because it encourages innovation and promote innovation.
This means that not only in standard setting process but also later at the time of utilizing such Standard FRAND license has to be available to those implementers.
Even after the Standard is set If aggregated individual FRAND royalties exceed “reasonable” amount, such standard setting activities would be retroactively questioned.
Study Items
Improve transparency of the SEP Declaration Process
Create method to control FRAND value of SEPs properly; especially at the time of implementing such standard we need solve the issue of Aggregated reasonable royalties (“Royalty stacking“)
e.g. SSO could encourage members to join a patent pool for declared SEPs.
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14. Further Study Items for TTC
Study on possible introduction of Software Copyright Guidelines and Trademark Guidelines.
Possible revisions to the Policy and the Operation Procedures according to the progress of the discussions in ITU.
Contribution to the study on Standardization and IP strategy.
Discuss and promote TTC members’ needs.
Study A new balanced approach regarding SEPs issue
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15. TTC’s IPR policy, guidelines, etc. are shown in the following website
Thank you !
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