At KEI Washington, DC offices
Patents and Standards at WIPO and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
Time: 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, Monday, 27 October 2008. Knowledge Ecology International (formerly CPTech) 1621 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 500 (5th floor) Washington, DC 20009 Tel: (202) 332 2670AGENDA
1. Introduction and context
Recently, trade officials from a number of countries have identified patents and standards as an important issue. China has asked the WTO Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) to examine this issue. Now WIPO and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) are expressing interest in this topic. To provide some basic context, there will be three short 5 minute presentations.
George T. Willingmyre, P.E., President, GTW Associates Dan Bart, Chair, ANSI IPR Policy Committee James Love, KEIThis will be followed by information discussions of the WIPO SCP and the IGF.
2. WIPO SCP
Recently, the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (SCP) has published a "WIPO Report on the International Patent System." Written comments on this report from WIPO Members and accredited observers are due by the end of October 2008. At the June 23-27, 2008 SCP meeting, the topic of patents and standards was identified as one of four areas for further WIPO staff analysis, and discussion at the next (yet to be scheduled, but sometime in the 1st quarter of 2009) SCP meeting. Some have proposed that the WIPO SCP consider one or more proposals for a new notice and disclosure agreement in relation to patents and standards. Other proposals concern the possible role for "soft" IPR regimes in some areas of standards.
What should be the WIPO role in addressing global challenges of managing patents and standards?
3. IGF
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be meeting in Hyderabad,India, December 3-7, 2008. A multi-stakeholder "Dynamic Coalition on Open Standards" (DCOS) was created within the IGF. There is interest within the DCOS to promote a procurement agreement on Interoperability and open standards.
PARTICIPANTS
Ajit Jillavenkatesa, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Brian Kahin, CCIA
Bruce Perens, Open Source expert
Byung Geon Lee, American Antitrust Institute
Christopher Hankin, Sun Microsystems
Dan Bart, Valley View Corporation/ANSI IPR Policy Committee
Donald Purcell, Center for Global Standards Analysis
Eddan Katz, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Elaine Wu, USPTO
Erika Duenas, Embassy of Bolivia
George Willingmyre, GTW Associates
James Love, KEI
Joshua Sarnoff, American University
Judit Rius, KEI
Konstantinos Karachalios, European Patent Office
Lawrence Kogan, ITSSD
Malini Aisola, KEI
Manon Ress, KEI
Marc Sandy Block, IBM
Marcus Williams, IBM
Michael Nelson, Georgetown University
Sherwin Siy, Public Knowledge
Stephen Merrill, STEP, The National Academies
Stephen Mutkoski, Microsoft
Susan Anthony, USPTO
Susan Hoyler, Qualcomm
Thiru Balasubramaniam, KEI
DOCUMENTS
Draft Treaty on Access to Knowledge, Part 6 – Promotion of Open Standards
WIPO Report on The International Patent System, SCP/12/3, Standards
KEI Draft Agreement on Procurement and Support for Interoperability and Open Standards
Dan Bart's presentation on Open Standards
George Willingmyre's presentation
ANSI Open Standards paper, May 2005
ANSI United States Standards Strategy with IPR-related text highlighted
United States Standards Strategy IPR-related excepts