On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:25:11PM +0200, Pete Resnick wrote: > On 7/30/09 at 3:03 PM +0100, Samuel Weiler wrote: > > >What harms would come from destroying those old records and/or not > >collecting such details in the future? And how widespread is the > >support for destroying them? > > Repeating something I just mentioned to Sam in the hallway (and > IANAL, even though I teach some of this stuff to engineers): > > There is some case law that says that if you participate (even > passively) in a standards body in which patent disclosure is > required, and you choose not to disclose your patents, you may lose > your rights to assert the patents. Having a blue sheet with someone's > name on it may be sufficient for a court to find that the person > can't assert. I think that makes the blue sheets worth keeping. > > pr > -- > Pete Resnick <http://www.qualcomm.com/~presnick/> > Qualcomm Incorporated - Direct phone: (858)651-4478, Fax: (858)651-1102 > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf you then have the burden of proof to show that you were not there, when I have signed you name to the blue sheet. -- --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf