Re: [PP-DIALOG] IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee (PatCom) - December 2018 agenda available online

[Dave Ringle <d.ringle@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gaelle,

The proposal at issue is the one dated 12 October. [Please reference http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/pp-dialog/email/msg00493.html]

Please see the definition of a Blanket Letter of Assurance in 6.1 of the SASB Bylaws (see https://standards.ieee.org/about/policies/bylaws/sect6-7.html). The SASB Bylaws are hierarchically superior to the SASB OpMan.

""Blanket Letter of Assurance" shall mean a Letter of Assurance that applies to all Essential Patent Claims for which a Submitter may currently or in the future (except as otherwise provided for in these Bylaws and in the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual) have the ability to license."

That addresses most of the duplicative text that exists in sentence 1 of 6.3.4 of the SASB OpMan. 

From 6.1 of the SASB Bylaws, please see also the definition of Letter of Assurance.

""Letter of Assurance" and "LOA" shall mean a document, including any attachments, stating the Submitter's position regarding ownership, enforcement, or licensing of Essential Patent Claims for a specifically referenced IEEE Standard, submitted in a form (PDF) acceptable to the IEEE-SA."

The red text in that definition addresses the duplicative text 'for a specific [Proposed] IEEE Standard'.

So, the proposed text deletion in 6.3.4 of the SASB OpMan is purely editorial clean-up of redundant text.

The proposed text addition in 6.3.4 of the SASB OpMan is to limit a Submitter's option of providing a Blanket LOA to only LOAs that offer licensing assurance. Proposed FAQ 28A indicates the text in the SASB Bylaws that discusses licensing assurance.

Regards,

Dave

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 4:22 PM, Gaelle Martin-Cocher <gmartincocher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear all,

 

I have a few questions for clarification regarding the agenda item  6.1  -  D.1.d LOA Proposal – Wennblom

Could someone clarify which D.1.d LOA proposal this is referring to?

• Is it the one circulated on the reflector on oct 12?
• Is it the one circulated over the summer and discussed at the PatCom executive session (oct 1-2) in agenda item 6.1 https://standards.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-standards/standards/web/governance/patcom/618patmins.pdf ?
• Or both?

 

Regarding the D.1.d - oct 12 proposal:

 

Section “proposal and rational” does not seem to explain some of the changes contained in the contribution:

 

Could someone kindly explain what is the reason for deleting text in section 6.3.4 of the SBOM?

Is the intend to change a “positive” blanket LOA to apply to all of IEEE deliverables instead of being limited to a specific standard?

This deletion, also triggers the following question: Is the scope of 6.3.4 limited to Multiple Letters of Assurance and Blanket Letters of Assurance for the same standard/project?

 

Similarly, how is new FAQ 28A related to the “proposal and rational” of this contribution?

 

Thank you.
Sincerely,

Gaëlle

 

 

 

 

 

From: Dave Ringle <d.ringle@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: October 23, 2018 9:48 AM
To: PP-DIALOG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PP-DIALOG] IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee (PatCom) - December 2018 agenda available online

 

The 03 December 2018 PatCom meeting agenda is available at https://standards.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-standards/standards/web/governance/patcom/agenda.pdf

 

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