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Crossroads General Patent License Statement

From: http://www.ietf.org/ietf-ftp/IPR/crossroads-ipr-general.txt

IETF Secretariat
c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, VA 20191-5434

Dear Sir or Madam:

        Crossroads employees are involved in various IETF working
        groups.  In conjunction with its participation in IETF
        activities and in accordance with RFC 2026, Crossroads
        makes the following statement:

Crossroads may have patents or patent applications that cover or
potentially cover technology a Crossroads employee contributes for
use in an IETF standard, including the iSCSI protocol under
development in the IP Storage (ips) working group.  In the event
a specific IETF standard cannot be practiced without the use of
an issued Crossroads patent or patents, Crossroads agrees, upon
written request, to negotiate a limited nonexclusive license to
practices the patent(s) for the sole purpose of implementing that
IETF standard, and no others, in products that are fully compliant
with that IETF standard.

        Crossroads will offer such a license on a nondiscriminatory
        basis and on reasonable terms and conditions.  Crossroads
        cannot represent that the terms and conditions will be identical
        for all products and for all companies.  Furthermore, the
        potential licensee must be prepared to offer Crossroads a
        comparable cross-license to any of the potential licensee's
        patents that apply or could potentially apply to Crossroads'
        products. Such licensing negotiations will be held with the
        parties concerned and will be conducted outside IETF.

Parties may obtain further information by contacting:

Patricia E. Prince-Taggart
Vice President and Corporate Counsel
Crossroads Systems, Inc.
8300 North Mo Pac Expressway
Austin, TX  78759


Sincerely,

Patricia Prince-Taggart