[mif] Microsoft IPR Claim on MIF API Document

Margaret Wasserman <margaretw42@gmail.com> Mon, 07 December 2015 21:24 UTC

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FYI --

As of 5-December-2015, Microsoft has issued an IPR claim regarding the MIF API Document discussed at our last meeting (draft-kline-mif-mpvd-api-reqs).  The IPR claim can be found here:

http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2722/

The claim is related to US Patent No. 7,568,236 granted July 28, 2009.

The terms are RAND with the possibility of a royalty-free license.

I have not read the patent, so I have no opinion regarding its relevance.  I just thought the WG should know about this ASAP.

Margaret