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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
GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications
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