1. Overview of the TSB Director’s Ad Hoc Group on IPR
SOURCE:
ITU
TITLE:
Overview of the TSB Director’s Ad Hoc Group on IPR
AGENDA ITEM:
IPR WG, agenda item 4
CONTACT:
GSC11/ (03r1)
Overview of the TSB Director’s Ad Hoc Group on IPR
by Masamichi Niiya
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) International Telecommunication Union Place des Nations - CH-1211 Geneva 20 – Switzerland
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2. TSB Director’s Ad Hoc Group on IPR
Chairman: Mr Houlin Zhao (TSB Director)
Members: Open to ITU Member States, Sector Members, Associates + invited participants
Participants include: AT&T, BT, France Télécom, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, KDDI, Lucent, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, NTT, Polycom, Psytechnics, Qualcomm, Siemens, ANSI, ETRI, ETSI, ISO, TTC, etc.
Previous Meeting : November 2005
About the IPR Ad Hoc Group:
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Item Content
1 Patents
2 Software Copyright Guidelines
Marks Guidelines
“Open Standards”
Patent Statements Database
Statistics
Topics for the next IPR Ad Hoc Group Meeting (Geneva, June 2006)
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Highlights from the Nov meeting and after (1/4)
1 Patent issues
The Task Force has worked through the draft of the Common Patent Policy for ITU-T/ITU-R/ISO/IEC, basic policy remains the same as the current ITU-T/ITU-R Patent Policy
Guidelines for Implementation of ITU-T Patent Policy – will be revised in order to be consistent with the Common Patent Policy
ITU-T Patent Statement and Licensing Declaration forms – will be renamed as the Common Patent Statement and Licensing Declaration forms
 The common form for an individual Recommendation
 Form for a common or twin text between ITU-T and ISO/IEC (no change)
 The common form for a General Statement
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5. Highlights from the Nov. 2005 meeting and after (2/4)
1 Patent issues (continued)
Discussion on Handling of Complex IPR
Difficult to search for information on patents owned by ITU-T non-members
Voluntary patent search can be done among interested ITU-T members
Such searches would be done outside ITU-T
The result of the search can be reported to the relevant Study Group and TSB
The TSB would attempt to contact owners and request them to submit the patent statement
Difficult to judge which might be essential (For further study)
Too many individual licensing negotiations and high accumulative licensing costs (For further study)
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6. Highlights from the Nov. 2005 meeting and after (3/4)
2 Software Copyright
ITU-T Software Copyright Guidelines (Issue – March 2005) – remains stable for use
ITU-T Software Copyright and Licensing Declaration form – remains stable for use
ITU-T Software Copyright database – is populated
3 Marks*
ITU-T Guidelines related to the inclusion of marks in ITU-T Recommendations (Issue 2.0 – November 2005) – revised and in use
* trademarks, service marks and certification marks
4 Open Standards
ITU-T definition of “Open standards” confirmed and may be revisited when necessary
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7. Highlights from the Nov. 2005 meeting and after (4/4)
5 Patent Statements Database
The whole patent database file is downloadable from the ITU-T website
- MS word
- PDF
- MS Access (available since Nov. 2005)
Improvement of the database (ongoing/future)
- Implementation of a search tool
- Implementation of a sorting function
- Links from/to the planned Recommendations on the Work programme
- Others: possible alignment of presentation between ITU-T Patent database and ITU-R Patent database
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ITU-T Patent statements received: 1,518 (as of 10 May 2006)
6 Statistics
Non-members: 300 (20%)
Members: 1, (80%)
Option 1: 95 (6%)
Option 3: 1
Option 2: 1,422 ( 94%)
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ITU-T Patent statements received (continued)
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7.Topics for the next Ad Hoc Group on IPR Meeting Geneva, June 2006
- Patent issues:
Briefing session on IPR in Asian region (China, Japan and Korea)
Handling of complex IPR cases
Patent database improvements
Software Copyright issues
Marks issues
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