Second review of educational material in support of the approved changes to the IEEE-SA Patent Policy
All,
One hundred and thirty nine (139) comments
were received on the previous version of education material documents -
out thanks to those that supplied these comments. The Core Drafting Committee
has considered all these comments and the following documents are the result
of that comment response process. The comment responses are also available
for review.
We are now seeking your input on the updated
documents through the comment tool we used to develop the policies. A 7
day period is being provided for review with the comment period closing
11:59PM AOE Thursday 15th March 2007. After this comment period is complete,
the core drafting committee will meet to develop responses, and revise
the draft educational material as needed. These revised drafts will be
the ones that will be considered at the IEEE-SA PatCom meeting the following
week on Tuesday 20th March.
The drafts and comment tool can be accessed
at the URL -[ http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/pp-dialog/draft-com-support-docs/index.html
]. The drafts that are being circulated for review are as follows:
File name Content
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PatCom_Slideset_V04.pdf Patent Slides for
WG Meetings
FAQ_V04.pdf Frequently Asked Questions
and Answers/PatCom Guide
Tutorial_V06.pdf New IEEE-SA patent policy
tutorial slide set
PatCom_Flowchart_V04.pdf Patent Letter
of Assurance (LoA) Process Flowchart
Standards_Companion_V05.pdf Proposed updates
to Standards Companion patent related text
PatCom_20_Feb_07_V2p5.pdf Comments received
on previous version of documents with responses
All comments concerning the above referenced
drafts must be entered using the PatCom Commenting Tool and must include
document name, page number and line number - please ONLY used the 'clean'
version of the document for entering comment against. Only those comments
duly recorded in the PatCom Commenting Tool and submitted as described
below will be considered. As stated above the deadline for submission of
comments is 11:59PM AOE Thursday 15th March 2007. Your output from the
commenting tool needs to be e-mailed to me at [David_Law@3com.com].
Please note that this activity is separate
from the ProCom Ad Hoc on Antitrust which I also hope to be able to give
you an update on soon.
Thanks and regards,
David Law
IEEE PatCom Chair