As you may recall, a draft of a revised IPR policy was circulated to members for comment last autumn and a series of webinars were held. A number of important member comments were received, after which the Board decided to further refine the policy to address these. The Governance Subcommittee was expanded and included representatives from at&t, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, France Telecom, IBM, Microsoft, Reliance Communications and Telstra. The task of the committee has been to represent a broad scope of membership interests and balance the interests of contributors to Forum standards and implementers.
The primary changes to the previous Policy draft are to simplify the IPR options for Forum Project Collaboration Teams and to ensure that the rights and obligations contained in the current (1989) policy are maintained.
TM Forum Members: Here is what you can do to make sure your company's IP rights are protected:
Review document and submit feedback or ask questions
If you haven't already, please download and review the new IPR policy draft document and submit your feedback or questions online by April 25 by clicking the button below.
Please also review the explanatory paper on the IPR Licensing Modes. The previous draft defined four licensing modes, but this new version simplifies this down to three. The RAND and RF RAND modes are retained, but the RF on Limited Terms and Non Assertion modes are combined into a simpler and easier to operate “Forum Click-through license. The Explanation of IPR Modes paper below provides additional details.
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