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Abstracts
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ATIS: Asok Chatterjee
This presentation provides an overview
of ATIS’ Intellectual Property Rights
(IPR) policy and of the ATIS IPR ad hoc
committee, which was created by ATIS’
Board to provide continuing input on
IPR-related issues. The presentation
also describes ATIS’ IPR-related public
policy work and its responses to two
recent U.S. government initiatives with
potential impacts on the IPR policies of
standards development organizations. |
TTC: Yukio Hiramatsu
This presentation introduces history of
TTC activities regarding “Industrial
Property Rights” contained in TTC
Standards and Technical Specifications
which are normative documents, mainly
focusing on those related to patents in
Standards. It also introduces up-to-date
status of the TTC activities on
IPR-in-Standards and the relevant
further study items. |
ETSI: Dirk Weiler
• Short Description of ETSI, its set up
and its scope of work.
• Description of the main
characteristics of the ETSI IPR Policy:
- Long successful way of elaborating
standards
- ETSI IPR Policy is key to the success
of ETSI’s standards
- ETSI has by far the largest amount of
declared IPRs with regard to its
standards of any SDO worldwide.
- IPR related topics often came up in
ETSI and were extensively discussed by
all relevant stakeholders on a consensus
based process - current ETSI IPR policy
reflects the consensus reached to a
large extent.
- ETSI has introduced a new patent
database to increase transparency, both
for the standardization system and for
patent offices in order to improve
patent quality.
- ETSI will introduce modifications in
order to provide guidance on the
handling of Software copyright issues.
• ETSI has got an IPR Special Committee
providing advice and guidance to the
Director-General, General Assembly, and
ETSI Board with regard to IPR related
issues when requested.
• ETSI provides comments to relevant
requirements of governments on standards
and the standardization system.
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TIA: Hung Ling
The Telecommunications Industry
Association (TIA) represents a large
number of information and communications
technology (ICT) companies and
organizations in standards, government
affairs, and market intelligence. TIA is
and has been a standards-setting
organization (SSO) since its inception
in 1988, and is one of the largest SSOs
accredited by ANSI. TIA's standards
development activities have both a
national and global reach and impact.
TIA is one of the founding partners and
also serves as Secretariat for 3GPP2 (a
consortium of five SSOs in the U.S.,
Japan, Korea, and China with more than
65 member companies) which is engaged in
drafting future-oriented wireless
communications standards. TIA also is
active in the formulation of United
States positions on technical and policy
issues, administering four International
Secretariats and 16 U.S. Technical
Advisory Groups (TAGs) to international
technical standards committees at the
International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC), and is the
International Secretariat and US TAG
Administrator for the International
Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Technical Committee (TC) 204 on
Intelligent Transportation Systems.
The member companies and other
stakeholders participating in the
efforts of these committees and
sub-groups have produced more than 3,000
standards and technical papers that are
used by companies and governments to
produce interoperable products around
the world. TIA also has a Standards and
Intellectual Property Policy Committee
(SIPC) that is focused on, among others,
policy issues related to the ICT
standardization system on a global
basis. |
France Telecom: Serge Raes
Setting-up a Patent Pool may speed up market adoption of a standard and cope with aggregated royalties: benefits and drawbacks for Licensors and Licensees. |
Ericsson: Dinesh Chand Sharma
This presentation covers open telecom standardization for interoperability between network elements and between competing vendors’ equipment. Concurrent research and consensus selection ensures that the best technologies are adopted into the standard specifications. At the same time, this process results in a joint ownership of the technology in question, which calls for sustainable licensing regimes.
In Ericsson’s view, FRAND implies there needs to be a balance between return on investment for those who invested in R&D to create the technology, and those who did not but wish to enter the market later.
Concluding, it also points to the market success of the 3GPP family of telecom standards as confirmation that FRAND works and serves market needs very well. |
Alcatel-Lucent: Hung Ling
Software is a form of work output
generated by scientists, engineers and
increasingly, by hobbyists. There are
usually a variety of ways to “express”
software such that after executing the
software, the same outcome may be
achieved at the end, perhaps some more
ingenious than others. Each particular
form of such expression is protected by
copyright, the extent of coverage may
depend on the legal jurisdiction. In the
Standards arena, it is therefore
important to make that the incorporation
of any software into a standard does not
prohibit any implementers from exploring
alternative ways to achieve the same
outcome if they choose to.
Alcatel-Lucent has participated in
discussions in the drafting of Software
Copyright Guidelines in ITU, ANSI and
ETSI. This presentation aims to
supplement the detail collective
discussions in these organizations being
reported in the Software Copyright
panel. |
ETSI: Dirk Weiler
• General outset – in which form/ to
which extent is Software generally part
of ETSI Deliverables?
• ETSI has – within its IPR SC and other
organs - extensively discussed the
appropriate handling of software
copyright issues in ETSI deliverables
over a period of three years, resulting
in modifications to the ETSI IPR policy
and the ETSI Guide on IPRs in November
2011 .
• The Modifications provide in summary
for the following:
- In general, Standards should provide a
description of features from which
competing and interoperable
implementations can be developed and
therefore there shall be no requirement
to use software incorporated in an ETSI
Standard or Technical Specification in
order for an implementation to conform
to this Standard or Technical
Specification.
- The SW copyright license as detailed
in the ETSI IPR Policy shall come
“automatically” whenever copyright
protected software is contributed
“silently”, but the option exists at the
contributor’s discretion at the time of
contribution to give an irrevocable
FRAND licensing undertaking instead.
• Overall, the basic principle of the
ETSI IPR regime remains FRAND. |
ANSI: Hung Ling
The American National Standards
Institute (ANSI) serves as coordinator
of the United States’s private
sector-led and public sector-supported
standardization system. The Institute
oversees the creation, promulgation, and
use of thousands of norms, guidelines,
and conformance activities that directly
impact businesses in nearly every
industry. ANSI cooperates with
government agencies at the federal,
state, and local levels to achieve
optimum compatibility between government
laws and regulations and the voluntary
standards of industry and commerce. In
this role, ANSI coordinates a
consensus-based, public-private
partnership that seeks input and
participation from a broad range of U.S.
government agencies, industry sectors,
standards developers, consumer groups
and others. In addition, ANSI speaks as
the U.S. voice in standardization forums
around the globe. Through its network of
members, the Institute represents the
interests of more than 125,000
organizations and companies and 3.5
million professionals worldwide. |
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