RE: IPR (Was: Re: Comments on draft-bagnulo-multi6dt-hba-00.txt)

["Soliman, Hesham" <H.Soliman@flarion.com>]

 >  In your previous mail you wrote:
 > 
 >    On 15-nov-04, at 16:50, Jari Arkko wrote:
 >    
 >    >> PS: BTW CGA IPR holders provide royalty-free licenses 
 > only for SEND,
 >    >> can they update their IPR texts on the IETF web for HBAs too?
 >    
 >    > FYI: I have asked the Ericsson IPR department to inform the
 >    > IETF about their licensing conditions regarding the HBA draft
 >    > and usage in MULTI6.
 >    
 >    Shouldn't we try to determine whether the patent even 
 > applies in the 
 >    first place?
 >    
 > => as the HBA idea is an extension of the CGA one, I can't 
 > see how the
 > patent can apply to CGA but not to HBA... No, the problem is real,
 > but it should very easy to fix with a better wording in the IPR note.
 > 

=> I think Microsoft also made claims about CGA, so I'm not
sure if the Ericsson IPR statement alone will be sufficient.

Hesham

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