History for IPR disclosure
Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-avt-rfc2793bis-09

From: http://www.ietf.org/ietf-ftp/IPR/cisco-update-ipr-draft-ietf-avt-rfc2793bis-09.txt

Title: Cisco's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-ietf-avt-rfc2793bis-09
Received: 10 November 2004
From: Robert Barr

Cisco is the owner of one or more unpublished pending patent applications
relating to the
subject matter of "RTP Payload for Text Conversation"
. If technology in this document is
included in a standard adopted by IETF and any claims of any Cisco patents
are necessary for practicing the standard, any party will have the right to
use any such patent claims under reasonable, non-discriminatory terms, with
reciprocity, to implement and fully comply with the standard.

The reasonable non-discriminatory terms are:

If this standard is adopted, Cisco will not assert any patents owned or
controlled by Cisco against any party for making, using, selling, importing
or offering for sale a product that implements the standard, provided,
however that Cisco retains the right to assert its patents (including the
right to claim past royalties) against any party that asserts a patent it
owns or controls (either directly or indirectly) against Cisco or any of
Cisco's affiliates or successors in title; and Cisco retains the right to
assert its patents against any product or portion thereof that is not
necessary for compliance with the standard.

Royalty-bearing licenses will be available to anyone who prefers that
option.


For information contact:

Robert Barr
Worldwide Patent Counsel
Cisco Systems
408-525-9706
rbarr@cisco.com