Patent and IP Related Material

Call for Essential Patent Claims

Any individual who believes that patented technology (or technology under patent application) might be incorporated into the e language draft standard, should immediately notify the working group.

From the PatCom online guide: “What is an essential patent claim?”

"Essential patents are those patents, including patent applications, whose infringement is unavoidable in a compliant implementation of either mandatory or optional portions of a standard and where there is no other reasonable technical implementation available. The oversight of the IEEE process is only concerned with essential patents."

Slides about IEEE Patent Policy

Please review the slide set (updated May 2007)

Information about IEEE Patent Policy

The IEEE/SA PatCom web site

The obligation of a WG Chair with respect to patents can be found in the IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause 6.3.2

To view the latest status on record please visit the PatCom essential patent database and search for “1647.”