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Dear David Ringle and PP-DIALOG participants, As discussion of any sort of pricing information discussion is fraught with antitrust concerns, when I re-read the slides, I thought better of the information points and subpoints allowing discussion of patent licensing costs as it was
written in the draft we received (Slide #3). In order to avoid potential for facilitating licensee price collusion (e.g. having a group of participants insist on a price for a royalty to let a particular technical approach or offering into a standard), I think that the legitimate
discussion of the effect of potential patent costs on choices of technological approaches can be handled with less danger with some wording change.
Am proposing to reposition the sub-bullet and use the following language. (It’s in the attached slide).
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Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions.
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However, relative general costs and benefits (merits) of different technical approaches including relative costs of patent licensing terms, relative difficulty of implementation and other similar relevant considerations may be
discussed in standards development meetings
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Technical considerations must remain the primary focus Best regards, Michael. From: Dave Ringle [mailto:d.ringle@xxxxxxxx] Dear All, As you may be aware, there is a PatCom Ad Hoc that has taken on the review of the current Call for Patents slides. Please see 5.3 at http://standards.ieee.org/about/sasb/patcom/0617patmins.pdf
for background. The current Call for Patents slides are available online at https://development.standards.ieee.org/myproject/Public/mytools/mob/slideset.pdf The Ad Hoc's draft slides are attached to this email. The Ad Hoc is conducting a review/comment period. If you have any comments on the draft slides, please send an email to Dave Ringle (d.ringle@xxxxxxxx), PatCom Administrator. The comment period will close on 03 November. Regards, ****************************************************************** |
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