Re: [Rmt] Posting of IPR Disclosure related to QUALCOMM Incorporated's Statement about IPR related to RFC 5170

Vincent Roca <vincent.roca@inrialpes.fr> Tue, 10 November 2009 15:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rmt] Posting of IPR Disclosure related to QUALCOMM Incorporated's Statement about IPR related to RFC 5170
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Everybody,

With Mike, we discussed the IPR topic face to face. Here is the result:

Mike explained that RFC3453 is not Prior Art, because the Patent Application
20080034273 that contains Claims 25-29 is a follow-up of patents filled
earlier. And these patents (e.g. Patent 6,307,487) already describe in their
Specification the possibility of having "multiple symbols per packet to 
improve
the decoder erasure recovery capabilities when dealing with small objects".

NB: not being a lawyer, I have no opinion on whether this argument is valid
    or not in this particular case.

Mike confirmed that in case a revision of RFC 5170 is published without
this technique, QC would issue a new IPR Disclosure without the "additional
10 patents", namely:
    6,307,487; 6,320,520; 6,373,406; 6,614,366; 7,057,534; 7,233,264;
    20080034273; 20080180284; 7,418,651; and 20090031199
Similarly, a codec implementing RFC 5170 without the above technique
will not infringe any of the "additional 10 patents".

Regards,

    Vincent