1. Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) GSC-15
DOCUMENT #:
GSC15-IPR-07
FOR:
Presentation
SOURCE:
TTC
AGENDA ITEM: 4
CONTACT(S):
Yukio Hiramatsu, Chairman, IPR Committee
IPR Activities of TTC
Yukio Hiramatsu,
TTC
Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) GSC-15

2. TTC Organization Chart
General Assembly
Councilor’s Meeting
Board of Directors
Secretariat
Award Committee
IPR Committee
Promotion Committee
Technical Assembly
Strategy Committee
　Management Committee
Working Groups
Advisory Groups
Projects
Technology Research
NGN Architecture
Signaling
NNI&UNI Transmission
System Promotion Project
Global Collaboration
DSL
NW Management
IPTV
NGN and Syourai Network
Solution Promotion Project
ICT and
Climate Change
Media Coding
Next-generation
Home Network System
Network Middleware
Next-generation
Home Network System
Mobile NW
Management
3GPP
Smart Grid
3GPP2
Interoperability

3. TTC Document Structure
Category
Document type
Definition
Normative
Standard
Stable Technical Specification
Technical Specification
Provisional Technical Specification
Informative
Technical Report
Technical Information Document
Survey Report
Report of survey by committees

4. History of study on IPR in TTC
Year
Month
Event
1988
June
Establishment of IPR Committee
1989
May
IPR Policy specified
Oct
- Operation Procedures specified
- DB for submitted Statements introduced
2001
Alignment with New Document Structure
2002
Major revisions to the procedures and texts
Alignment with new operational structure of TTC
2003
Apr
Revised definition for reciprocity
2005
Copyright Treatment specified
2006
Mar
Revised IPR Policy and Operation Procedures
2007
Dec
Revised Operation Procedures
2009
July
Revised Provision of IPR Committee

5. External Activities of TTC on IPR since2004
November 2003 – July 2004: Considered the revisions made to the ITU-T’s Declaration Form and confirmed alignment with TTC’s Form.
May 2004: Participated in GSC9 held in Seoul.
August-September 2005: Participated in GSC10 held in Sophia Antipolis.
May-June 2006: Participated in GSC11 held in Chicago.
July 2007: Participated in GSC12 held in Kobe
May 2008: Discussion with IEEE-SA
July 2008: Participated in GSC13 held in Boston
July 2009: Participated in GSC14 held in Geneva
December 2009: Discussion with Chair of ETSI IPR

6. Current status of TTC’s IPR handling
IPR as Industrial Property Right is being handled.
Trademark not handled.
Only the copyright of TTC Standards and Specification considered, not other types of documents.
IPR Policy specifies basic principles. (TTC Board of Directors approves and publishes IPR Policy.)
Operation Procedures specify detailed procedures regarding IPR Statements and their maintenance, including IPRs owned by non-members. (IPR Committee approves and publishes Operation Procedures.)

7. Current ITU-T Rules vs New TTC Rules
Common Patent Policy
The Policy for the Handling of Industrial Property Rights
Patent
Common Patent Guidelines
Operation Procedures for the Handling of Industrial Property Rights
Software Copyright
Software Copyright Guidelines
(FFS)
Guidelines related to the inclusion of Marks in ITU-T Recommendations
(FFS)
Trademark
Right to copy for standardization related purposes
Copyright
Copyright Treatment
Note – TTC is a recognized SDO under Recs. A5 and A.6.

8. Submission of IPR Statements in TTC
DB for IPR Statements available at TTC Web
For TTC Standards 155 (1988-July 2010)
For TTC Technical Specifications 22 (2001-July 2010)
(Note) Here, “IPR” stands for Industrial Property Right.

9. Outline of the revision of Provision of IPR Committee in May. 2009
Stipulated capacity and power of IPR committee
Stipulated qualification of committee membership and special committee membership
Stipulated eligibility, right of vote, quorum and election system

10. Alignment with ITU-T patent guidelines (1/2)
Discussions on enhancements to TTC IPR guidelines to incorporate recent enhancements made in ITU-T
Patent statements could be submitted with different options per patent claim
TTC has completed draft enhancements and is waiting for the formal decision in ITU-T/ITU-R/ISO/IEC 10

11. Alignment with ITU-T patent guidelines (2/2)
Different interpretations when no patent information (which is desired but not required) submitted associated with the ITU-T/ITU-R/
ISO/IEC common patent statement
All essential patents owned by the patent holder for the Rec. will be negotiated based on RAND, etc.
Apart from one or more essential patents to be negotiated based on RAND, etc., patent holder reserves the right to differently declare in subsequent statements regarding other patents in the future. 11

12. Further Study Items
Study on possible introduction of Software Copyright Guidelines and Trademark Guidelines.
Study on complex IPR cases and possible revisions to the Policy and the Operation Procedures.
Contribution to the study on Standardization and IP strategy.
Discuss and promote TTC members’ needs.
License of Right, etc. 12

13. TTC’s IPR policy, guidelines, etc. are shown in the following website
Thank you !
Yukio Hiramatsu 13