PatCom Report

1
PatCom Report
To the Standards Board
Don Wright - Chair
8 June 2006 Piscataway, NJ
2
2Q06 Activity

• 14 LoA forms received posted
• 2 free form LOAs under consideration
• 6 requests made for 13 LoAs

3
2Q06 Activity

• LoAs were previously submitted as free-form
  letters and are still under consideration.
• Legal counsel has identified required changes to
  the free-form LOAs.
• Once these changes have been made, PatCom is
  expected to accept these LOAs.

4
ANSI Patent Policy

• A series of minor changes to the ANSI Patent
  Policy, largely to provide clarifications, was
  approved.
• An issues list, providing a long term road map
  for future work of the patent group, is being
  developed.
• Next meeting of the ANSI Patent Committee is next
  week at Apple.

5
Ad Hoc Drafting Committee

• The Drafting Committee ad hoc of the Patent
  Committee was appointed by the chair following
  the March PatCom meeting.
• The ad hoc was divided into a Core Drafting
  Committee and an Extended Drafting Committee.
• Core
• Don Wright, Chair
• David Law, PatCom member
• Claire Topp, Legal Counsel
• Michael Lindsay, Legal Counsel
• Extended Drafting Committee
• Chuck Adams (IBM PatCom member)
• Jeff Fromm (HP)
• Susan Hoyler (Qualcomm)
• Gil Ohana (Cisco)
• Mike Sirtori (Intel)
• Amy Marasco (Microsoft)
• Geoff Thompson (IEEE SA Member)

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Ad Hoc Drafting Committee (cont.)

• The Core Drafting Committee met at the offices of
  Dorsey Whitney in Minneapolis on May 2nd and
  3rd to
• Address the specific motions passed at the March
  PatCom meeting.
• Address other problematic issues in the documents
  that had repeatedly arisen, e.g.,
• This assurance shall be provided without
  coercion.
• These results were delivered to the Extended
  Drafting Committee for their comments and
  suggestions.
• The Core Drafting Committee met multiple times
  via teleconference to resolve the hundreds of
  comments and suggestions made on the documents.

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Resulting Documents

• The results were
• Bylaws Bylaws-Clause-6-2006-05-19-v8-clean.pdf
• Ops Man Ops Manual 2006-05-19-v8-clean.pdf
• LOA Draft LOA - 2006-05-03v7-clean.pdf
• Definitions Definitions Terms 2006-05-19-v8.pdf
• The comment and responses
• PatCom_comments_V5p0.pdf
• All are available on the pp-dialog site.

8
PatCom Meeting

• The PatCom meeting was again well attended by
  guests from many high profile IT and TeleComm
  companies.
• The meeting ran from 830 AM until 700 PM.
• A highly interactive discussion was once again
  held on each of proposed areas of change.
• The four documents previously identified were
  discussed.

9
Moving Forward

• The ad hoc Drafting Committee was reconstituted
  to continue working through identified issues.
• The group will continue to use the PP-dialog
  e-mail reflector and web site
  http//grouper.ieee.org/groups/pp-dialogto
  distribute drafts and comments to the committee
  and other interested parties.
• PatCom will meet for a full day on the Tuesday
  (September 12th) prior to the next SASB meeting
  series to ensure sufficient time to continue to
  make progress.