History for IPR disclosure
Cisco's patent statement pertaining to draft-rosen-vpn-mcast-04.txt

From: http://www.ietf.org/ietf-ftp/IPR/CISCO-rosen-vpn-mcast.txt

Received October 29, 2002
From: Robert Barr

Cisco has a pending patent application relating to the subject matter of
draft-rosen-vpn-mcast-04.txt, "Multicast in MPLS/BGP VPNs". If a
standard relating to this subject matter is adopted by IETF and any
claims of any issued Cisco patents are necessary for practicing this
standard, any party will be able to obtain a license from Cisco to use
any such patent claims under  reasonable, non-discriminatory terms, with
reciprocity, to implement and fully comply with the standard.

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