GSC16bis-IPR-09
Document No:
GSC16bis-IPR-09
Source:
TTC
Contact:
Yukio Hiramatsu
GSC Session:
IPR Working Group
Agenda Item:
4.7
TTC Activities on IPR in
Standards
October 9, 2012
Yukio Hiramatsu
Chairman, TTC IPR Committee
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Contents
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About TTC
History of “IPR in Standard” issues in TTC
Activities since GSC15
Futher study items
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TTC Organization Chart
General Assembly
Councilor’s Meeting
Board of Directors
Secretariat
Award Committee
IPR Committee
Promotion Committee
Management Committee
Technical Assembly
Strategy Committee
Projects
System Promotion Project
Working Groups
Solution Promotion Project
Advisory Groups
NGN & FN
Signaling
Optical Trranspot
Networks and EMC
DSL
Technology Research Global Collaboration
NW Management
IPTV
ICT and
Climate Change
Numbering Plan
Interoperability
Multimedia
Optical Fiber
Transmission
Security
One M2M
Media Coding
Cloud Computing
Smart Grid
Enterprise Network
Next-generation
Home Network System
Mobile NW
Management
3GPP
3GPP2
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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
committees
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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 Oct
Alignment with New Document Structure
2002 May
Major revisions to the procedures and texts
Oct
Alignment with new operational structure of TTC
2003 Apr
Revised definition for reciprocity
2005 May
Copyright Treatment specified
2006 Mar
Revised IPR Policy and Operation Procedures
2007 Dec
Revised Operation Procedures
2009 July
Revised Provision of IPR Committee
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External Activities of TTC
on IPR since 2004
• Nov. 2003 – July 2004: TTC’s Declaration Form aligned with
that of ITU-T.
• May 2004: Participated in GSC9 held in Seoul.
• Aug. – Sep. 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
• Dec. 2009: Joint workshop with ETSI IPR Committee
• Aug. – Sep. 2010: Submitted a contribution to GSC15 in
China
• Jan. 2011: Discussion with ITI on IPR in standards
• Dec. 2011: Participated ITU-T-GISFI IPR Workshop in Delhi.
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Current status of TTC’s IPR
handling
• IPR (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 New TTC Rules
ITU-T
Patent
TTC
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 ITU-T
Recommendations
(FFS)
Right to copy for
Copyright Treatment
Copyright
standardization related
purposes
Note – TTC is a recognized SDO under Recs. A5 and A.6.
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Submission of IPR Statements in
TTC
• DB for IPR Statements available at TTC
Web
• For TTC Standards 155 (1988 – Oct.
2012)
• For TTC Technical Specifications 30
(2001 – Oct. 2012)
• (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 nonmember's chapters for clarification.
• Enhanced descriptions:
– clarification of subject (member or non-member)
– 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
• 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 had been waiting
for the formal decision in ITU-T/ITU-R/ISO/IEC (Ready now!)
• Different interpretations when no patent information (which is
desired but not required) submitted associated with the ITUT/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
– TTC has submitted a contribution to the ITU-T IPR Adhoc.
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ITU-T’s Software Copyright
Guidelines
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• TTC submitted a contribution to assure
that SDOs can distribute software
contained in Recommendations to their
members (in item b of Annex B).
• The contribution was accepted with a
slight modification.
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Handling of copyright in TTC
• Handling of copyright revised in Feb.
2012.
• Clarified the handling of copyright for the
documents received from TTC members
as well as third parties outside TTC.
• Clarified definition of terms such as “TTC
members” and “programs”
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APT IPR Policy
• TTC has contributed to APT in developing
its first IPR policy.
• APT IPR policy has been aligned with that
of ITU-T.
• NTT, a member of TTC, volunteered to
provide an editor for further alignment in
the future.
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oneM2M
• TTC has become a type 1 member of the
oneM2M.
• TTC IPR Committee has reviewed its IPR
policy and made comments in terms of
alignment with IPR policies of ITU-T and
TTC.
• TTC IPR Committee will continuously
monitor the progress of the forum, in
particular, of its IPR policy.
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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, Restriction for execution of declared patent rights
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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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