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Stephan Wenger <stewe@stewe.org> Fri, 20 June 2014 07:07 UTC

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From: Stephan Wenger <stewe@stewe.org>
To: "dcrocker@bbiw.net" <dcrocker@bbiw.net>, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>, IPR WG <ipr-wg@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Expired patents
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Hi,

On 19.6.14, 19:27, "Dave Crocker" <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:

>On 6/19/2014 6:24 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> I was wondering whether there is a need for an occasional sweep
>> over the IPR disclosures to tag all those that cite expired
>> patents. We've been at this long enough that it is starting to
>> be relevant. For example, I just noticed that IBM's NAT patent
>> (US5371852) must have expired by now.
>> 
>
>That is certainly a reasonable suggestion, but I suspect it can
>sometimes carry unfortunate complexities.
>
>For example imagine someone filing a continuing patent but not updating
>the IETF's records. There would be relevant IPR encumbrance but we
>wouldn't necessarily know it.

That¹s a bad example.  A continuation inherits the priority date of the
parent, and expires at the same time as the parent (broadly put, and in
most but not all countries, 20 years after the oldest priority date).

Stephan

 
>No matter what we do or don't do, the record won't be perfect, but we
>probably should be cautious about having our records move from
>'encumbered' to 'not encumbered' through any simple process such as a
>timeout.
>
>d/
>
>
>-- 
>Dave Crocker
>Brandenburg InternetWorking
>bbiw.net
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