IEEESASB Patent Committee

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IEEE-SASB Patent Committee

• Pre-PAR Intellectual Property Management Ad Hoc
• SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

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Pre-PAR IP Ad Hoc Final Report Presentation
Content

• Charter
• Membership
• Meetings
• Background
• Observations
• Assessment
• Work Products
• Conclusion
• Recommendations

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Pre-PAR IP Ad Hoc Charter

• IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee (PatCom)
  5 June 2007
• 4.1 Action Item PatCom will form an ad hoc group
  to examine some of the issues brought out during
  discussion
• Pre-PAR LoA submissions
• Call for Patents at study group meetings
• Definition of approved IEEE standards project.

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Pre-PAR IP Ad Hoc Membership

• 1) Chuck Adams wcadams_at_us.ibm.com
• 2) Kent Baker Kentb_at_qualcomm.com
• 3) Sandy Block msb_at_us.ibm.com
• 4) Marc Braner marc.j.braner_at_intel.com
• 5) Jim Hughes Jim.Hughes_at_microsoft.co
  m
• 6) Rich Hulett Rich.Hulett_at_thermon.
  com
• 7) Tony Jeffree tony_at_jeffree.co.uk
• 8) David Law David_Law
  _at_3com.com
• 9) Michael Lindsay Lindsay.Michael_at_DORSEY.
  COM
• 10) Daleep Mohla d.c.mohla_at_ieee.org
• 11) Ron Moore
  ronmoore_at_microsoft.com
• 12) Earl Nied
  earl.nied_at_intel.com
• 13) Mary Lynne Nielsen m.nielsen_at_ieee.org
• 14) Scott Peterson scott.k.peterson_at_h
  p.com
• 15) Dave Ringle d.ringle_at_ieee.org
• 16) Michael Sirtori
  michael.j.sirtori_at_intel.com
• 17) Robert Taylor TaylorR_at_howrey.com
• 18) Geoff Thompson gthompso_at_nortel.com
• 19) Claire Topp Topp.Claire_at_DORSEY.C
  OM

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Pre-PAR IP Ad Hoc Meetings

• August 21, 2007
• Evaluate Pre-PAR Structure and Operations
• August 30, 2007
• Assess Alternatives (5) for Pre-PAR IP Management
• September 20, 2007
• Develop Proposal for PatCom Review

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Pre-PAR IP Ad Hoc Background

• Pre-PAR Activities (e.g. Study Groups) are
  Sponsor initiated (rather than Standards Board
  initiated) standards related work activities.
• Sponsors have the authority to initiate short
  term projects which may
• Lead to a Standards Board authorized PAR, or
• Provide initial work products for a subsequent
  Work Group to evaluate, or
• Terminate without resulting in a proposed PAR.
• While the Pre-PAR Activity is a recognized
  IEEE-SA activity, Pre-PAR Activity is not
  required to, and does not operate under the rules
  imposed by the Standards Board for standards
  development activities.
• Sponsors have an obligation, however, to ensure
  that the Pre-PAR Activity is legitimately
  pre-PAR.
• Work that should be performed in a properly
  organized and regulated standards development
  activity should not be pushed down into Pre-PAR
  Activity.

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Pre-PAR IP Ad Hoc Observations

• Pre-PAR Activities are Sponsor Chair initiated
  for a period of not more than six months.
• Pre-PAR Activities may be initiated according to
  a loosely defined charter.
• Pre-PAR Activities have recognition within the
  IEEE-SA
• Can be covered by IEEE-SA indemnification
• Have Sponsor oversight for work product
  development
• Pre-PAR Activity work products are not approved
  by the IEEE-SA Board, are not introduced into an
  IEEE-SA Board process, and are not approved for
  standards track development under NesCom.
• Pre-PAR Activities are not registered within the
  IEEE-SA
• Pre-PAR Activities would only be recognized and
  registered by the Sponsoring organization.
• Pre-PAR Activities normally perform one or more
  of the following work efforts
• PAR development.
• Initial standards project work activity that can
  potentially transfer to standards track activity.
• Research in preparation for a planned standards
  activity.
• Other pre-standards and technology scoping
  activities.
• Pre-PAR Activities normally have an organization
  / voting / participation structure of some form
  (may be informal, defined by the sponsor, or
  defined by Pre-PAR activity participants) and
  have a Pre-PAR Activity chair. The structural,
  organizational, and voting structures are at the
  discretion of the organizing sponsor.

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Pre-PAR IP Ad Hoc Assessment

• Work efforts associated with Pre-PAR Activity may
  involve a need to understand potential
  intellectual property requirements
• Associated with participant contributions and /
  or
• Associated with the subsequent work effort of the
  participants.

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Pre-PAR IP Ad Hoc Work Product

• Pre-PAR Activity White Paper
• Problem Statement
• Assumptions
• Observations
• Considerations
• Identification / Review of Five Pre-PAR IP
  Management Alternatives
• Conclusions and Three Recommendations

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Pre-PAR IP Ad Hoc Conclusion

• IEEE-SA Intellectual Property Policy does not
  currently address, define nor accommodate
  Intellectual Property Guidelines for Pre-PAR
  Activities.
• Recommendations from this Ad Hoc for Pre-PAR
  Intellectual Property Management Proposals would
  be inconsistent with current IEEE-SA defined
  policy

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Pre-PAR IP Ad Hoc Recommendations

• Current IEEE-SA Policy defines
• When an approved Standards Project Initiates
• PAR Approval
• When an LOA can be accepted
• Post PAR Approval
• A subsequent Pre-Par Task Team should be
  established, with a set of defined parameters, to
  evaluate the current IEEE-SA Patent Policy.
• Determine If and How Pre-PAR Intellectual
  Property Policy should be addressed.
• Determine whether the IEEE-SA Patent Policy
  should be modified to address Pre-PAR activities.
• Evaluate whether ProCom needs to address Process
  and Procedure for Pre-PAR activity to be
  consistent with Pre-PAR Intellectual Property
  process considerations.
• Charter the existing Ad Hoc to continue as a Task
  Team to evaluate Pre-PAR Intellectual Property
  process.