IPR Details
Arista Networks, Inc.'s Statement about IPR related to draft-sajassi-bess-rfc8317bis

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Submitted: May 8, 2023 under the rules in RFC 8179.

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

Holder legal name Arista Networks, Inc.

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application
Holder contact name Sean Christofferson
Holder contact email schristofferson@arista.com
Holder contact info

5453 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054
408-547-8375

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

Name Aaron Bamberger
Email abamberger@arista.com
Other info

5453 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054

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

Internet-Draft:
draft-sajassi-bess-rfc8317bis ("Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) Support in Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and Provider Backbone Bridging EVPN (PBB-EVPN)")
Notice:
No revisions for this Internet-Draft were specified in this disclosure. The Internet-Draft's revision was 00 at the time this disclosure was posted. Contact the discloser or patent holder if there are questions about which revisions this disclosure pertains to.

V. 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)

Number: US18/192578
Inventor: Akhil Shashidhar, Aaron David Bamberger
Title: Traffic Handling for EVPN E-Tree
Date: 2023-03-29

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending Yes

VI. 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

Arista hereby grants to you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, irrevocable (except as stated otherwise) patent license to make, have made, use, offer to sell, sell, import, transfer, and otherwise run, modify and propagate implementations of the Specification. If technology in the Specification is included in a standard adopted by IETF, such license applies only to those patent claims, both currently owned by Arista and acquired in the future, licensable by Arista that must necessarily be infringed because of what is specifically required by the normative portions of the Specification. This license is offered on the condition that you grant a reciprocal license under the same terms as this license to all parties for implementations of the Specification under those patent claims, both currently owned by you and acquired in the future, licensable by you that must necessarily be infringed because of what is specifically required by the normative portions of the Specification. If you or your agent or exclusive licensee institute or order or agree to the institution of patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any implementation of the Specification constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, or inducement of patent infringement, then any patent rights granted to you under this license shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed.

Notwithstanding whether the Specification is included in a standard adopted by IETF, Arista 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 Arista or any of Arista's affiliates or successors in title or against any products of Arista or any products of any of Arista's affiliates either alone or in combination with other products.

"Specification" means the IETF document identified above.

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.

VII. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Lisa Liou
Submitter email lliou@arista.com

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