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Re: [idn] Re: IETF Notification of Patent Publication for WO 01/90955 A2
- To: "James Seng/Personal" <jseng@pobox.org.sg>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Re: IETF Notification of Patent Publication for WO 01/90955 A2
- From: Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 10:34:35 -0800
- Cc: "Heinze, Bill" <bill.heinze@tkhr.com>, <idn@ops.ietf.org>, "'Mr. Marc Blanchet, Co-Chair, idn Working Group,'" <Marc.Blanchet@viagenie.qc.ca>, "'Mr. Erik Nordmark, Internet Area Director,'" <nordmark@eng.sun.com>, "'Mr. Thomas Narten, Internet Area Director,'" <narten@us.ibm.com>, "'Mr. John Klensin, Technical Advisor,'" <klensin@jck.com>, "'Mr. Harald Alverstrand, Technical Advisor,'" <harald@alvestrand.no>, "'RFC 2026 Submissions to IETF Director,'" <scoya@ietf.org>
- In-reply-to: <028101c19f83$61147f70$dd00a8c0@jamessonyvaio>
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At 02:18 AM 1/18/2002 +0800, James Seng/Personal wrote:
Incidently,
IETF generally have more engineers and very few lawyers. I am not sure if
idn wg is in any position to review your patent filing claims, a job
usually reserved for patent lawyers.
James,
1. Unfortunately, quite a few IETF engineers have had to deal with
patent issues in recent years. This means that they/we are in a
position to do expert review of the technical aspects of a filing.
Often that leads to distracting discussions in which we fall into the
trap of forgetting that we are not attorneys, but it still can provide
useful review of a filing's technology.
2. An IETF working group has an obligation to pay attention to
claims that are asserted over IETF work.
d/
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