Subject: [mif] Microsoft IPR Claim on MIF API Document

From: Margaret Wasserman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 16:24:43 -0500

FYI --

As of 5-December-2015, Microsoft has issued an IPR claim regarding the MIF API Document discussed at our last meeting (draft-kline-mif-mpvd-api-reqs).  The IPR claim can be found here:

http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2722/

The claim is related to US Patent No. 7,568,236 granted July 28, 2009.

The terms are RAND with the possibility of a royalty-free license.

I have not read the patent, so I have no opinion regarding its relevance.  I just thought the WG should know about this ASAP.

Margaret