On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 18:50 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Simon Josefsson writes: > >> There is no requirement in the IETF process for organizations to > >> disclose patents as far as I can see. The current approach of only > >> having people participate, and disclose patents, in the IETF is easy > >> to work around by having two persons in an organization doing > >> different things: one works on specifying and standardizing > >> technology, and the other is working on patenting the technology. > > > > How can you practically avoid the first person knowing about it? > > Make sure (through confidentiality agreements) that the second one do > not talk with the first? Putting them in different continents helps. Not relevant in this case - the participating individuals were named on the patent applications as inventors. It would be hard to convince a judge that they didn't know... _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf