Re: draft-savola-ipr-lastcall-01.txt

Scott,

You wrote " If someone has a claim which is generally known, but doesn't
disclose by the time of IETF last call,
they are already getting near to losing the right to enforce the patent."

What makes you say that they are near to losing their "right" ?  Surely
patent rights are granted and enforced by law, not by any process of the
IETF ?

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Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 09:41:45 -0400
From: Scott W Brim <sbrim@cisco.com>
To: ipr-wg@ietf.org
Subject: Re: draft-savola-ipr-lastcall-01.txt

<snip>

>    If IPR claims are known but have not been recorded in the IETF IPR
>    repository yet, documents must not be last-called prior to the claims
>    appearing in the repository.

I'm not sure this has a beneficial result.  If someone has a claim which
is generally known, but doesn't disclose by the time of IETF last call,
they are already getting near to losing the right to enforce the patent.

<snip>
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