Re: Standards-essential patents under RAND licensing

Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Fri, 11 January 2013 01:16 UTC

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From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
To: tglassey <tglassey@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Standards-essential patents under RAND licensing
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>>>>> "tglassey" == tglassey  <tglassey@earthlink.net> writes:
    tglassey> What do you do where a patent predates any standards use of the IP. I
    tglassey> understand the issues of developing IP but what about IP that already existed
    tglassey> before the standards processes incorporated it into their work product?

I think that it depends upon whether the owner of the patent was
involved in producing the standard.  If not, and nobody knew of the
patent, there is certainly a problem.

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