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IPR Details
Cisco's Statement of IPR relating to draft-ietf-bfd-base-11

The text of the original IPR disclosure is available in the disclosure history.

Submitted: February 4, 2010 under the rules in RFC 3979 as updated by RFC 4879.

Note: Updates to IPR disclosures must only be made by authorized representatives of the original submitters. Updates will automatically be forwarded to the current Patent Holder's Contact and to the Submitter of the original IPR disclosure.

I. Patent Holder/Applicant ("Patent Holder")

Holder legal name Cisco Systems

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application

Holder contact name Dan Lang
Holder contact email standards-ipr@cisco.com
Holder contact info

Director, Intellectual Property

III. IETF Document or Other Contribution to Which this IPR Disclosure Relates

Internet-Draft:
draft-ietf-bfd-base ("Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)")
Notice:
No revisions for this Internet-Draft were specified in this disclosure. The Internet-Draft's revision was 11 at the time this disclosure was posted. Contact the discloser or patent holder if there are questions about which revisions this disclosure pertains to.

IV. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 3979 as updated by RFC 4879

A. For granted patents or published pending patent applications, please provide the following information:

Patent, Serial, Publication, Registration, or Application/File number(s)

U.S. Patent No. 7,561,527

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending No

V. Licensing Declaration

The Patent Holder states that its position with respect to licensing any patent claims contained in the patent(s) or patent application(s) disclosed above that would necessarily be infringed by implementation of the technology required by the relevant IETF specification ("Necessary Patent Claims"), for the purpose of implementing such specification, is as follows(select one licensing declaration option only):

Licensing See Text Below for Licensing Declaration
Licensing information, comments, notes, or URL for further information

To the extent technology in this document is included in a standard
adopted by the IETF, Cisco hereby grants a royalty-free, non-exclusive,
perpetual, sub-licensable, worldwide license to any party to make, use,
sell, offer for sale, and import a product that implements and is fully
compliant with the standard under Cisco's rights to any claim of the
'527 patent that is necessarily infringed by such a product.

Note: The individual submitting this template represents and warrants that he or she is authorized by the Patent Holder to agree to the above-selected licensing declaration.

VI. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Rachel Albright
Submitter email ralbrigh@cisco.com

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