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Re: [mpls] IPR Disclosure Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd's Statement about IPR related to draft-jags-mpls-mna-hdr

Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com> Tue, 17 January 2023 17:44 UTC

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From: Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [mpls] IPR Disclosure Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd's Statement about IPR related to draft-jags-mpls-mna-hdr
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Always hard to tell without the English text, but the patent I noted and Toerless referred to the Futurewei IPR team is I believe different.

It is unfortunate that we (by IETF rules) are supposed to be silent on licence terms when discussing IPR .

Stewart

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> On 16 Jan 2023, at 20:08, Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> wrote:
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>> On Jan 16, 2023, at 11:50 AM, Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk> wrote:
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>> In this case, I wonder whether the MPLS working group would like to think
>> about the mechanisms in draft-jags to see whether it is possible to devise
>> an approach that is not encumbered by IPR that requires a license.
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> I am not a lawyer.
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> Before we throw the baby out with the bath water, we might want to think about whether this patent is in fact valid. There is plenty of prior art with EL and ELI.
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> Text of the patent can be found here: https://patents.google.com/patent/CN114827019A/en?oq=CN202210118938
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> Tony
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