ITU Workshop on Standards and
Intellectual Property Rights
(IPR) Issues
TTC Activities on IPR in
Standards
Yukio Hiramatsu
Chairman, TTC IPR Committee
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Contents
About TTC
History of “IPR in Standards” issues
in TTC
Current activities
Further study items
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TTC Organization Chart
General Assembly
Secretariat
Councilor’s Meeting
Board of Directors
Inter-Industry
Innovation Center
Award Committee
Promotion
Committee
IPR Committee
Management
Committee
Projects
Technical Assembly
Strategy Committee
System Promotion
Project
Working Groups
Solution Promotion
Project
Advisory Groups
NGN ＆ FN
Signaling
NNI&UNI Transmission
DSL
Technology Research
Smart Grid
NW Management
IPTV
ICT and
Climate Change
Numbering Plan
Global Collaboration
Smart Car
Optical Fiber
Transmission
Security
Media Coding
Enterprise Network
Network Middleware
Multimedia
Next-generation
Home Network System
Mobile NW
Management
3GPP
3GPP2
Interoperability
Cloud Computing
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TTC Document Structure
Category
Normative
Informative
Document type
Definition
Standard
Stable Technical
Specification
Technical
Specification
Provisional Technical
Specification
Technical Report
Technical Information
Document
Survey Report
Report of survey by
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History of study on IPR in TTC
Year
Month
1988
1989
June
May
Oct
2001
2002
Oct
May
Oct
Apr
May
Mar
Dec
July
June
Sep
2003
2005
2006
2007
2009
2010
2011
Event
Establishment of IPR Committee
IPR Policy specified (IPR: Industrial Property Right)
- Operation Procedures specified
- DB for submitted Statements introduced
Alignment with New Document Structure
Major revisions to the procedures and texts
Alignment with new operational structure of TTC
Revised definition for reciprocity
Copyright Treatment specified
Revised IPR Policy and Operation Procedures
Revised Operation Procedures
Revised Provision of IPR Committee
Alignment with ITU-T patent guidelines
Copyright Treatment revised
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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
Specifications 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.)
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Current ITU-T Rules vs. TTC Rules
ITU-T
TTC
Patent
Common Patent
Policy
The Policy for the Handling
of Industrial Property
Rights
Common Patent
Guidelines
Operation Procedures for
the Handling of Industrial
Property Rights
Software
Copyright
Software Copyright
Guidelines
(FFS)
Trademark
Guidelines related to the
inclusion of Marks in ITUT Recommendations
(FFS)
Right to copy for
Copyright Treatment
standardization
Copyright
related purposes
Note – TTC is a recognized SDO under Recs. A5 and A.6.
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Current ITU-T Rules vs TTC Rules
ITU-T
TTC
Detailed
Hold-up
procedures
problems
Licensing
Free, RAND & No
conditions
Declaration
Yes
form
Database Yes on Web site
Collection of
statements
Guidelines
Detailed
procedures
Free, RAND & No
Yes
Yes on Web site
ITU-T Secretariat
President of TTC
Available
Available
General patent
statement
Irrevocability
Yes (Note 1)
Yes (Note 2)
Yes
Yes
Assignment
Yes
Yes (Note 3)
Yes
Yes
Per claim
declaration
Note 1 – Separate form is available which covers any recommendations.
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Note 3 – Assignee will be requested to submit statement.
Submission of IPR
Statements in TTC
DB for IPR Statements available at TTC
Web
http://www.ttc.or.jp/j/std/committee/ipr/i
pr_policy/list (in Japanese only)
For TTC Standards 155 (1988-Nov 2011)
For TTC Technical Specifications 27
(2001-Nov 2011)
(Note) Here, “IPR” stands for Industrial
Property Right.
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Outline of the revision of
operation procedures in Dec.
2007
Almost all changes are editorial
improvements.
Reviewed the structure and order of chapters.
• Basically maintained, however enhanced
the non-member's chapters for clarification.
Enhanced descriptions:
• Clarification of subject (member or nonmember)
• Adoption of detailed explanation or
expression.
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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
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Alignment with ITU-T patent
guidelines in 2010 and 2011
Patent statements with different options per
patent claim (June 2010)
• TTC has completed draft enhancements
Further enhancements to the patent statement
and licensing declaration form
• Contribution submitted to the ITU-T adhoc
Group on IPR (Dec 2011) to clarify how to
interpret the declaration with/without
patent information, and to propose
additional information to be added in the
form.
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Discussions on Software
Copyright in Standards
TTC is following up the discussions on
revisions of the software copyright guidelines
in ITU-T
• Contribution submitted to the ITU-T adhoc
Group on IPR (Dec 2011) to assure the
attached software provided to SDOs
TTC is also noting the other SDO’s discussions
and treatment on the matter.
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International activities and
cooperation
Participate in ITU-T adhoc Group on IPR
Participate in IPR WG of GSC (Global
Standards Collaboration) and PRS (Policies,
Regulatory and Strategies) WG of ASTAP
Exchanges with ETSI and US ITI (Information
Technology Industry)
MoU with ITU, ETSI, ATIS, TIA, etc.
LoI (Letter of Intent) with GISFI, India
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Further Study Items
Study on possible introduction of Software
Copyright Guidelines and Trademark
Guidelines.
Contribution to the study on Standardization
and IP strategy.
Discuss and promote TTC members’ needs.
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TTC’s IPR policy, guidelines, etc. are
shown in the following website
http://www.ttc.or.jp/e/intro/rules/ru6/index.html
Thank you !
Yukio Hiramatsu.
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