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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (144581)	8/27/2006 10:51:39 PM
From: rkral	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

"The meaning seems reasonably clear to me. The intention is to avoid companies promoting aspects of a standard which involve their own patents without announcing that they have got relevant patents and what those patents are. But the ETSI IPR Policy goes beyond that. As I posted here only a few days ago, the Directorate Generale Competition of the EC had this to say relative to Article 4.1 of the ETSI IPR Policy: “The addition of the phrase “in which it participates” therefore addresses the concern expressed by some ETSI members, and also means that to the extent that a member is not participating in an ETSI standards development committee/working group but becomes aware of certain essential IPRs, a general obligation to inform ETSI of the essential IPRs REMAINS”. [emphasis mine] etsi.org (pg 16)