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IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent
Committee (PatCom)
APPROVED Minutes
17 March 2009
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
IEEE Operations Center, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
MEMBERS PRESENT
Jim Hughes
Rich Hulett
Karen Kenney, Non-voting
John Kulick
David Law
Steve Mills, Chair
MEMBERS ABSENT
None
IEEE OUTSIDE LEGAL COUNSEL
Claire Topp - Dorsey & Whitney
GUESTS
John Barr
Victor Berman
Bob Davis
Wael Diab
Mark Epstein
Bob Grow
Hung Ling
Glenn Parsons
Chuck Powers
Sam Sciacca
James Wendorf
Howard Wolfman
STAFF
Bill Ash
Matt Ceglia
Terry deCourcelle
Jodi Haasz
Yvette HoSang
Noelle Humenick
Bob LaBelle
Don Messina
Dave Ringle, Administrator
Susan Tatiner
Jerry Walker
Malia Zaman
1 CALL TO ORDER
Chair Mills called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m.
2 APPROVAL OF AGENDA
There was a motion to approve the agenda. The motion was unanimously approved.
3 APPROVAL OF 8 DECEMBER 2008 PatCom MEETING MINUTES
There was a motion to approve the previous meeting minutes. The motion was unanimously approved.
4 ADMINISTRATIVE STATISTICS
a) Number of LoAs Received and Posted
b) Number of Requests for LoAs
Dave Ringle reported that there were 37 LoAs (and 1 non-awareness statement) received that were accepted and posted.
Dave reported that 1 request (totaling 31 LoAs) was received and fulfilled since the December 2008 PatCom meeting.
5 OLD BUSINESS
6 NEW BUSINESS
6.1 Legal Update – Topp
Claire Topp informed the group that the U.S. Supreme Court had denied the FTC’s petition for Writ of Certiorari in the Rambus case.
6.2 ANSI Patent Group Update – Kulick
John Kulick reported that the ANSI Patent Group (PG) had not held any meetings since the December PatCom meeting. ANSI’s Intellectual Property Rights Policy Committee (IPRPC) did approve two documents – ANSI Guidelines on Embedded Trademark and ANSI Guidelines on Software in Standards – earlier this year. The PG may be absorbed by the IPRPC; ANSI is currently balloting this issue.
7 NEXT MEETING
The next PatCom meeting will be Monday, 15 June 2009, in Tokyo, Japan.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 5:40 p.m.
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