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IPR Details
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's joint statement about IPR claimed in Camellia

Submitted: June 25, 2003 under the rules in RFC 2026.

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I. Patent Holder/Applicant ("Patent Holder")

Holder legal name Nippon Telegraph and Telephone and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application

Holder contact name Takashi Suzuki
Holder contact email
Holder contact info

General Manager, Intellectual Property Center
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
9-11, Midori-Cho 3-Chome Musashino-Shi,
Tokyo 180-8585 Japan

III. IETF Document or Other Contribution to Which this IPR Disclosure Relates

IV. Licensing Declaration

The Patent Holder states that its position with respect to licensing any patent claims contained in the patent(s) or patent application(s) disclosed above that would necessarily be infringed by implementation of the technology required by the relevant IETF specification ("Necessary Patent Claims"), for the purpose of implementing such specification, is as follows(select one licensing declaration option only):

Licensing See Text Below for Licensing Declaration
Licensing information, comments, notes, or URL for further information

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (hereinafter refers as "Parties") believe to hold granted patents and/or pending application (hereinafter refers as "Patents"), which is/are essential to implement Camellia.
On condition that other company and/or entity shall grant their patents essentially required to IETF S/MIME standard (hereinafter refers as "Standard") under fair and commercially reasonable terms and conditions on non-discriminatory basis in accordance with RFC 2026, Parties hereby declare that, to the extent that Patents are essential to Camellia, Parties are prepared to grant, on the basis of reciprocity and non-discriminatory for Standard, a royalty-free license under Patents to an unrestricted number of applicants throughout the world to manufacture, use and/or sell implementations of Camellia with respect to the application area of the Standard.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Parties shall reserve any and all rights to enforce Patents
against any applicant in the event that such applicant assert any patent related to
cryptographic technology which is essentially required to products fully complied with Standard.

Note: The individual submitting this template represents and warrants that he or she is authorized by the Patent Holder to agree to the above-selected licensing declaration.

V. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Isamu Yoshimatsu
Submitter email yoshimatsu.isamu@lab.ntt.co.jp

VI. Other Notes

Additional notes

Ryo Tokunaga
General Manager, Corporate Licensing Department
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
2-2-3, Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo, 100-8310, Japan

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