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IPR Details
Todd Glassey's Statement about IPR related to draft-bradner-rfc3979bis belonging to Multiple Holders

Submitted: September 10, 2019 under the rules in RFC 8179.

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

Holder legal name Multiple Holders

II. Contact Information for the IETF Participant Whose Personal Belief Triggered this Disclosure

Name Todd Glassey
Email tglassey1@protonmail.com
Other info

Patent and IP Recoveries, Grup, LLC
+1 999 999 9999

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

Internet-Draft:
draft-bradner-rfc3979bis ("Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology")
Notice:
No revisions for this Internet-Draft were specified in this disclosure. The Internet-Draft's revision was 13 at the time this disclosure was posted. Contact the discloser or patent holder if there are questions about which revisions this disclosure pertains to.
Sections:
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IV. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 8179

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

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

Date: 2002-03-22
Notes: ANY AND ALL PATENT METHODS INCLUDED IN RFC DOCUMENTS CREATE A CO-COPYRIGHT HOLDER STANDING ON THE DOCUMENTS FOR THE ACTUAL OWNERS OF THE ENFORCEMENT RIGHTS, WHETHER THOSE ARE THE ASSIGNEES OR PARTIES THEY ARE BOUND TO THROUGH CONTRACT SETTLEMENT OR RELATED COURT ORDERS.

This is very important since the Bradner document RFC3979-bis doesn't take into account that the copyright standards extend to the methods used from those patents and grant the patent holder a co-copyright standing in any and all publications made through the IETF standards process or its publication channels. This provides those co-copyright holders with any and all copyright controlled rights including monetization demand rights for uses of the network protocols in any parties products derived from an IETF Standard.
Title: Controlling Access to Stored Information
Number: US6370629, US6393126
Inventor: Todd Glassey

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending No

V. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Todd Glassey
Submitter email tglassey1@protonmail.com

VI. Other Notes

Additional notes

The IETF has in many instances included patent protected methods in the documents it publishes which did not get disclosed to the patent holders, or their owners/assignees. In this software and firmware appliances using those methods was published outside of the licensing those patent protected methods brought into the process.

The IPR methods of the IETF *** MUST *** be updated to properly notice that the IP Rights of an owner extend into the co-copyright standing of any document published by the IETF and persist through the full term of the Standard Documents (RFC, BCP etc) publication. This may have the effect of extending the legal term the IP in the patent is protected and should be considered as part of the term of enforcement model in use today.

It clearly affects RFC3979-bis and any later IPR related publications by the IETF. As such it is germane to the publication of standards by IETF and their enforcement in the IPR realm.

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