1. Review of GSC-10 IPR WG 45 attendees
SOURCE:
ETSI
TITLE:
Review of GSC-10 IPR working group
AGENDA ITEM: 3
CONTACT:
IPR(06)03
Review of GSC-10 IPR WG
45 attendees
19 input documents (plus some revisions) presented and discussed
8 issues discussed
2 Resolution agreed
Fruitful discussions on a range of topics
IPR WG to meet for 1/2 day during GSC/11

2. Changes or items being considered in PSO IPR Policies
PSOs are beginning to expand legacy IPR policies and/or guidelines to also cover embedded copyright-protected items like source code and trademark usage in standards
Copyright ownership in standards as documents
Now seeing more express licensing or transfer of copyright in connection with contributions
GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

3. ITU, ISO, and IEC Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Policies update
Attempts to streamline and harmonize the implementation of policies among ISO, IEC, ITU
Combined ITU-T and ITU-R database on IPR Declarations will be implemented
Caution that non-legal Secretariat staff can make what they think are “simple” language changes on forms that can have profound legal consequences
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4. IPR Policies and Current Issues of Organizations External to GSC PSOs
OMA decision to harmonize its policy with those of PSOs and ITU with regard to the scope of the licensing commitment
Better understanding of patent licensing scheme being used for some of the IPR related to W-CDMA and legal status of that process
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5. Experience of practical implementation issues under existing policies
Streamlining at ITU in ITU-T and ITU-R database “convergence”
Education about Use of DRM by SDOs and their document distributors to use “technical” protections to enforce “legal” protection of their copyrighted documents
Concerns on the issue relating to cost of implementation to be addressed at September SOS Conference at ETSI
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6. Open Standards related to IPR issues
Recommendations from GSC as to how to state and frame the issue of “what are attributes for an OPEN STANDARD?”
Recommendations from GSC with regard to appropriate IPR policy for an OPEN STANDARD
GSC Input for September ETSI Standards, Open Standards and Interoperability Conference (and other places as the issue arises)
Two new related Resolutions:
Definition of “Open Standard”
Updated IPR Resolution
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