Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-28 Thread SM
At 17:19 26-01-2012, Dave CROCKER wrote: What I believe is /not/ worth keeping -- and which we have already made piecemeal concessions to -- is that corporations in fact /do/ participate in the IETF and need to be treated as responsible participants. (Note that the word responsible, here, has

Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-27 Thread Lou Berger
I agree there are many "gray area" cases that I think it would be best to shy away from over specifying. But what do we do when there is a bright line violation of RFC3979? IMO I think we should have consensus on a very small set of repercussions for blatant violations of RFC3979. Even if the co

Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-26 Thread Hector
Stephan Wenger wrote: Dear Hector, I'm not quite sure that your understanding of the US patent law and MPEP rules is inline with most patent practitioners, or that your post otherwise make all that much sense. First, the thing you are talking about are known as "Markush Claim". From MPEP, 803.

Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-26 Thread Pete Resnick
Reinforcing some of what Adrian said: On 1/26/12 5:35 PM, Richard L. Barnes wrote: I appreciate that there need to be disincentives to infringing the IPR policy, but I'm a little wary of the idea of codifying a system of sanctions. Mainly for the sorts of "gaming the system" thinking they en

Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-26 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/26/2012 3:35 PM, Richard L. Barnes wrote: I appreciate that there need to be disincentives to infringing the IPR policy, but I'm a little wary of the idea of codifying a system of sanctions. Mainly for the sorts of "gaming the system" thinking they engender: It is likely that we have

Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-26 Thread Stephan Wenger
Dear Hector, I'm not quite sure that your understanding of the US patent law and MPEP rules is inline with most patent practitioners, or that your post otherwise make all that much sense. First, the thing you are talking about are known as "Markush Claim". From MPEP, 803.02: "A Markush-type clai

Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-26 Thread Eric Burger
t; Sent: 26 January 2012 23:12 >> To: IETF-Discussion list >> Subject: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions >> >> Just a heads-up: >> >> Adrian Farrel and I started work on a draft to focus discussion on >> sanctions that could be applied

Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-26 Thread Hector
: Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions I appreciate that there need to be disincentives to infringing the IPR policy, but I'm a little wary of the idea of codifying a system of sanctions. Mainly for the sorts of "gaming the system" thinking they engender: -

Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-26 Thread Hector
Pete Resnick wrote: Just a heads-up: Adrian Farrel and I started work on a draft to focus discussion on sanctions that could be applied to violators of the IETF's IPR policy. Because of incidents like the present one, we've each been asked by WG chairs and others what can be done in response

RE: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-26 Thread Adrian Farrel
some more. Cheers, Adrian > -Original Message- > From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Richard > L. Barnes > Sent: 26 January 2012 23:35 > To: Pete Resnick > Cc: IETF-Discussion list > Subject: Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-

Re: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-26 Thread Richard L. Barnes
I appreciate that there need to be disincentives to infringing the IPR policy, but I'm a little wary of the idea of codifying a system of sanctions. Mainly for the sorts of "gaming the system" thinking they engender: -- Is the benefit of infringing worse than the cost of the sanction? -- If it's

RE: Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-26 Thread Adrian Farrel
oming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions > > Just a heads-up: > > Adrian Farrel and I started work on a draft to focus discussion on > sanctions that could be applied to violators of the IETF's IPR policy. > Because of incidents like the present one, we've each been asked

Forthcoming draft: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions

2012-01-26 Thread Pete Resnick
Just a heads-up: Adrian Farrel and I started work on a draft to focus discussion on sanctions that could be applied to violators of the IETF's IPR policy. Because of incidents like the present one, we've each been asked by WG chairs and others what can be done in response to such violations. W