Re: [idn] Re: IETF Notification of Patent Publication for WO 01/90955 A2

[Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>]

At 02:18 AM 1/18/2002 +0800, James Seng/Personal wrote:
> Incidently,
> IETF generally have more engineers and very few lawyers. I am not sure if
> idn wg is in any position to review your patent filing claims, a job
> usually reserved for patent lawyers. 

James,

1.  Unfortunately, quite a few IETF engineers have had to deal with
patent issues in recent years.  This means that they/we are in a
position to do expert review of the technical aspects of a filing. 
Often that leads to distracting discussions in which we fall into the
trap of forgetting that we are not attorneys, but it still can provide
useful review of a filing's technology.

2.  An IETF working group has an obligation to pay attention to
claims that are asserted over IETF work.

d/

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