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ITU Web Site for Dummies. Here is the latest stuff from ITU website.
I went to the ITU site today to try to find more info on the current meeting of Working Party 8F, and possibly to find the list of patents submitted against IMT-2000. There are some very interesting things on the ITU site. Here is a summary of what I found. This may help others trying to research the same.
First, check out the ITU-T patent policy document. Basically this document says that the ITU will not produce recommendations that involve patent disputes, and in order to avoid those disputes they ask that member organizations declare the patents they hold against draft recommendations, and declare whether they will license those patents fairly and reasonably to others. If they won?t (like Qualcomm, perhaps?) the recommendation is sent back to the working group that prepared it so they can redesign the spec to work around those patents. Simple as that. This document is MUST READING, IMO.
The ITU-T patent policy document is found at
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Now, the ITU-T patent database can be browsed at
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However, IDC does not show up, because the IMT-2000 recommendations and work are actually being done by ITU-R, which handles radiocommunication.
ITU-R patent policy is at
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and is similar to ITU-T policy. However, where is the patent database??? For some reason, ITU-R does not make the patent database available on their web site. If we could find it, we could search for patent declarations made against IMT-2000 recommendations, and perhaps see what companies declared patents (like IDC).
IMT-2000 related recommendations are found at
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Click on the first recommendation link (M.687-2) and scroll down to the recommendation number listed at the link above. Click and you can purchase a copy from ITU if you want, or view the table of contents.
You can sort of follow the history of IMT-2000 development this way. Note that draft recommendations and working documents are only available to TIES users (members ).
The ITU-R site has info on the various study groups, working groups and task groups involved. Study Group 8 handles the Mobile stuff (IMT-2000 included). There are various groups listed in the table at
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You can keep up with the latest activities by following the links below. The latest circulars for SG8 are at
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Check out the document posted March 8, 2000:
Adoption of 3 draft new and 1 draft revised Recommendations by Study Group 8
Wish I could read that one (adoption of IMT-2000 specs?).
By the way, Study Group 8 submitted the last draft of ITU-R[IMT.RSPC] - Detailed specifications of the radio interfaces of IMT-2000 on Feb 3, 2000.
The Task Group 8/1 working documents are found at
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and information documents are at (check out some of these sensitive topics!):
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Wish I could get this one, QCOM IPR Position, from Dec 98.
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The Working Group 8/F working documents are at
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Here is a great document, the agenda for the current meeting of Working Party 8/F:
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Note the powerpoint presentation link at the bottom, IMT-2000 and Beyond. It takes a while to download but it has a lot of cool stats and projections of 4G wireless.
Hope this is useful to somebody.
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