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GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications 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 Tel: +41 22 730 6071 Fax: +41 22 730 5853 E-mail: [email protected] ITU Web address: http://www.itu.int SOURCE: ITU TITLE: Overview of the TSB Director’s Ad Hoc Group on IPR AGENDA ITEM: IPR WG, agenda item 4 CONTACT: [email protected] IPR(06)_03

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GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

Overview of the TSB Director’s Ad Hoc Group on IPR

byMasamichi Niiya

Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)International Telecommunication Union

Place des Nations - CH-1211 Geneva 20 – SwitzerlandTel: +41 22 730 6071 Fax: +41 22 730 5853

E-mail: [email protected] Web address: http://www.itu.int

SOURCE: ITU

TITLE: Overview of the TSB Director’s Ad Hoc Group on IPR

AGENDA ITEM: IPR WG, agenda item 4

CONTACT: [email protected](06)_03

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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 : 1-2 November 2005

About the IPR Ad Hoc Group:http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/othergroups/ipr-adhoc/index.html

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Item Content

1 Patents

2 Software Copyright Guidelines

3 Marks Guidelines

4 “Open Standards”

5 Patent Statements Database

6 Statistics

7 Topics for the next IPR Ad Hoc Group Meeting (Geneva, 27-28 June 2006)

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1 Patent issues• ITU-T and ITU-R Patent Policies – will be renamed as Common Patent

Policy for ITU-T/ITU-R/ISO/IEC revised but 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

Highlights from the Nov. 2005 meeting and after (1/4)

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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 Voluntary patent search can be done among interested ITU-T ITU-T membersmembers

Such searches would be done outside ITU-TSuch searches would be done outside ITU-T The result of the search can be reported to the relevant Study The result of the search can be reported to the relevant Study

Group and TSBGroup and TSB The TSB would attempt to contact owners and request The TSB would attempt to contact owners and request

them to submit the patent statement 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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Highlights from the Nov. 2005 meeting and after (3/4)

2 Software Copyright• ITU-T Software Copyright Guidelines

(Issue 2.1.1 – 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 marks4 Open Standards

ITU-T definition of “Open standards” confirmed and may be revisited when necessary

http://www.itu.int/ITUT/othergroups/ipradhoc/openstandards.html

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Highlights from the Nov. 2005 meeting and after (4/4)

5 Patent Statements DatabaseThe whole patent database file is downloadable from the ITU-T website http://www.itu.int/ITUT/dbase/patent/index.html

- WS word- PDF- 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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6 Statistics

Non-Members

Member States &Sector Members

Non-members: 300 (20%)

Members: 1,218 (80%)

Option 1 (Free)

Option 2 (RAND)

Option 3 (Refusal)

Option 1: 95 (6%)

Option 2: 1,422 ( 94%)

ITU-T Patent statements received: 1,518 (as of 10 May 2006)

Option 3: 1

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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, 27-28 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