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Overview of TTA IPR PolicyOverview of TTA IPR Policy

Boomi KANG,Boomi KANG,

TTATTA

Document No:

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Source: TTA

Contact: Boomi, KANG (bmkang@tta.or.kr)

GSC Session:

IPR Working Group

Agenda Item:

4.6

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TTA CommitteeTTA Committee

Coordination Committee

As of Aug. 2012

WPAN, LBS, Radio resources, Telematics/ITS, RFID/USN, WBAN, and PPDR, Magnetic

Field Communication (7 PGs)Radio Radio CCommunications ommunications (TC3)(TC3)

Multimedia application, e-commerce, Public Information , NGIS, Intelligent Service Robot, Distributed Resource Management, Post PC, Welfare Communication, SoC,

SOA, u-health, cloud computing, and wireless power transmission. (14 PGs)IT Application IT Application (TC4)(TC4)

64 Project Groups (PG)64 Project Groups (PG)7 Technical Committees (TC)7 Technical Committees (TC)

Optical Transmission, Optical Internet, Network Management, NGN, VoIP, Charging & Interconnection, IPv6, Internet Address Resource, Digital Home, Quality of Service,

protection of facilities, Outdoor Facilities, Ethernet, Future Internet (14 PGs)Telecommunication Telecommunication (TC2)(TC2)

Embedded S/W, Open Software, Software quality evaluation, WEB, Metadata, Maritime u-navigation, e-Publishing, and CPS (8 PGs)Infra S/W Infra S/W (TC6)(TC6)

Mobile broadcasting, Terrestrial broadcasting, Cable broadcasting, Interaction broadcasting, Satellite Broadcasting, and 3DTV (6 PGs)Broadcasting Broadcasting (TC8)(TC8)

Information security infrastructure, Personal Information service/ID management, Cyber

security, Application security/assessment authentication, and Biometrics (5 PGs)Information Information Security Security (TC5)(TC5)

IMT-Advanced, IMT WiBro, Mobile platform & service, wireless LAN, CR, VHO, Satellite IMT Evaluation, Object Intelligence Communication, and Mobile Charging & Application (10 PGs)

IMT(4G) IMT(4G) (TC7)(TC7)

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TTA IPR AG & AHGTTA IPR AG & AHG• IPR AG is responsible for studying TTA IPR policy

and guidelines.• PG could make the IPR AHG for studying the IPR

issues relating to standardization item.

DMB/ WiBro(expired)DMB/ WiBro(expired)

7 TCs(Technical Committees)

7 TCs(Technical Committees)

64 PGs (Project Groups)

64 PGs (Project Groups)

Technical Assembly (TA)Technical Assembly (TA) IPR Advisory Group IPR Advisory Group

IPR Adhoc Group

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Statistics of TTA StandardsStatistics of TTA StandardsAs of Aug. 2012

Note : This is excluded from declaration of 3GPPs’ TS.

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Statistics of TTA Statistics of TTA IPR DeclarationIPR Declaration

Note :This is excluded from declaration of 3GPPs’ TS related patents.You can find the information on website : http://www.tta.or.kr/English/new/external_relations/IMT2000.jsp

As of Aug. 2012

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TTA TTA IPR Declaration DBIPR Declaration DB

Standards IPR Holder Number of declarations

- Deliverable number- Title of Deliverable- IPR Holder

http://committee.tta.or.kr/join/ipr_list.jsp

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TTA IPR PolicyTTA IPR Policy• IPR Disclosure

– Anyone proposing a TTA standards item or anyone having interests in it, from the outset, draw the attention of TTA to any known IPR or to any known pending IPR application, by notifying relevant information to the Secretariat of TTA.

• Terms and Conditions for granting licenses– without compensation and on a non-discriminatory basis– reasonable terms and conditions and non-discriminatory

basis

• TTA responsibility– TTA shall not be responsible for the accuracy and validity

of relevant IPRs claimed by IPR holders, and – TTA shall not be involved in the arbitration of disputes

between IPR holders and users of TTA standards.

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TTA IPR IssuesTTA IPR Issues

• TTA has not yet revised the TTA IPR Policy of Dec. 2006.

• There are some issues relating to TTA IPR Guidelines such as :– Transfer ownership of IPRs; – S/W Copyrights; or– IP Database regular update. Etc.

• There is also concern about copyrights in case of referring or incorporating the other SDOs’ standards into TTA standards.

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Antitrust Issue (1/2)Antitrust Issue (1/2)

• Jan. 2012, Fair Trade Commission of Korea published the guidelines for Standardization.

Model Operating Guidelines for Standards Setting Organizations for Voluntary Compliance with the Monopoly and Fair Trade Act

• This guidelines includes the basic principles :– Give interested parties equal opportunities of participation in

the standard setting process.

– Need a transparency in operating the standard setting procedure.

– Establish and enforce reasonable and clear intellectual property rights policies.

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• This guidelines also includes the specific operating procedures relating to :– Participation of SSOs and Scope of discussions ; – Decision making for standard setting;– Disclosure of IPRs;– FRAND comittment;– Measures to guarantee this guidelines; and etc.

Antitrust Issue (2/2)Antitrust Issue (2/2)