Federal Trade Commission (www.ftc.gov) sometimes gets involved in matters
relating to US companies failing to disclose intellectual property related
to standards activities in which they participate. There have been a number
of cases in which the FTC have penalized the patent holder where it could be
clearly shown the that patent holder participated in the development of a
standard and failed to disclose the existence of patent rights related to
the standard.
Alan
On 6/2/11 1:46 PM, "James M. Polk" <jmpolk@cisco.com> wrote:
> Regardless of the impact, what's this with Qualcomm bringing this IPR
> declaration 6 years after the document became an RFC *WHILE* being
> the WG chair of this group at the time of _every_ version of this
> draft and while the RFC was being published?
>
> I believe there were also Qualcomm (employed) contributing members of
> this WG through the lifecycle of the draft during its creation and
> editing as well.
>
> I believe Qualcomm employed the responsible AD for this WG too at this time.
>
> this has me scratching my head wrt the very existence of the NOTE
> WELL everybody is supposed to live within the IETF.
>
> James
>
> BTW - I don't know if this is exactly like the ALU case Russ just
> posted about, but it's pretty darn close, and should seriously be looked at.
>
> At 12:34 PM 5/24/2011, Richard L. Barnes wrote:
>> <hat type="individual"/>
>>
>> For your convenience, the referenced patent is titled "Reducing
>> satellite signal interference in a global positioning system receiver"
>> <http://www.google.com/patents?id=YqsIAAAAEBAJ>
>>
>> As far as I can tell, this has basically no relationship to the data
>> format defined in RFC 4119. Even if the geolocation fields in a
>> PIDF-LO document were filled from an infringing GPS receiver, it
>> would be the receiver that caused the infringement, not the PIDF-LO encoding.
>>
>> --Richard
>>
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: IETF Secretariat <ietf-ipr@ietf.org>
>>> Date: May 24, 2011 1:21:11 PM EDT
>>> To: jon.peterson@neustar.biz
>>> Cc: gonzalo.camarillo@ericsson.com, rjsparks@nostrum.com,
>> geopriv@ietf.org, rbarnes@bbn.com, acooper@cdt.org,
>> ipr-announce@ietf.org, housley@vigilsec.com
>>> Subject: IPR Disclosure: Qualcomm Incorporated's Statement about
>> IPR related to RFC 4119
>>>
>>> Dear Jon Peterson:
>>>
>>> An IPR disclosure that pertains to your RFC entitled "A
>> Presence-based GEOPRIV
>>> Location Object Format" (RFC4119) was submitted to the IETF Secretariat on
>>> 2011-05-24 and has been posted on the "IETF Page of Intellectual
>> Property Rights
>>> Disclosures" (https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1560/). The title of the IPR
>>> disclosure is "Qualcomm Incorporated's Statement about IPR
>> related to RFC 4119."
>>>
>>> The IETF Secretariat
>>>
>>>
>>
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