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Subject: Re: Scope of SAP patents related to UBL and ebXML
Forwarded as requested; see http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ubl/200711/msg00015.html Response follows separately. Jon ================================================================== Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:52:08 +0100 From: "von Riegen, Claus" <claus.von.riegen@sap.com> Subject: AW: Scope of SAP patents related to UBL and ebXML To: jon.bosak@sun.com Cc: eduardo.gutentag@sun.com, jamie.clark@oasis-open.org, ubl@lists.oasis-open.org Dear Jon, Thank you for your request. I assume that you refer to statements that certain individuals made about SAP being in the business of protecting intellectual property that in some way or another is related to the standards development at UN/CEFACT. While I don't know the motivation of these individuals, I do know that this caused a lot of unnecessary confusion inside and outside of UN/CEFACT. I believe that all what is needed in order to clarify the situation is to educate participants in standards development at UN/CEFACT and in standardization efforts that base their work on UN/CEFACT deliverables about the meaning and implications of the UN/CEFACT IPR Policy. Fortunately, UN/CEFACT management - during the September UN/CEFACT Forum meeting in Stockholm - did just that. Please see, for example, the presentation from Mark Palmer, UN/CEFACT Vice Chair [1] and the UNECE press release [2] that was published shortly after the Forum meeting. More concretely, as any other member of UN/CEFACT Permanent Groups, SAP is bound to the UN/CEFACT IPR Policy and its obligations, including the obligation to waive our rights to enforce intellectual property necessary to use specifications from UN/CEFACT Permanent Groups in which we participate. Please forward this message to the UBL TC mailing list since I am not a TC Member and, thus, can not post myself. If you have any further question, please don't hesitate to get back to me. Regards, Claus [1] http://www.uncefactforum.org/MEETINGS/ForumPresentations_files/IPR/1%20IPR%20Overview%20Mark%20Palmer.ppt [2] http://www.uncefactforum.org/MEETINGS/ForumPresentations_files/IPR/IPR%20session%20Press%20Release%20PR07_trade04e_H.doc Claus von Riegen Director Technology Standards Global Partner and Ecosystem Group SAP AG Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16 69190 Walldorf, Germany T +49 6227 7-42589 F +49 6227 78-19953 M +49 160 8896870 claus.von.riegen@sap.com www.sap.com
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