Patents and Standards

[Willis Marti <willis@cs.tamu.edu>]

perry@imsi.com writes:
>jwlowe@VNET.IBM.COM says:
>> At this time, IBM believes that the only IBM patent relevant to
>> the proposal is US Patent #5,148,479 and its non-US counterpart
>> patents and patent applications.  The agreement between IBM and
>> each licensee will specifically reference, but will not be
>> limited to, this patent.
>
>If this implies that there has to be an explicit agreement signed by
>each developer and user I think the terms are still not entirely
>acceptable. It will mean that vast amounts of paperwork will be needed
>to actually deploy the standard. I strongly urge you to set this up so
>that no interaction with IBM is needed on the part of any entity using
>these protocols in an internet context.

Maybe there's some misunderstanding as to scope.  If _developers_ but not
users need the license, it's essentially no different than ethernet/802.3.
Right?

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