IPR Details
Ericsson's patent statement pertaining to draft-ietf-mobileip-hmipv6

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Submitted: July 8, 2002 under the rules in RFC 2026.

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

Holder legal name Ericsson

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application
Holder contact name Malin Gullstrand
Holder contact email Malin.Gullstrand@era.ericsson.se
Holder contact info

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

Internet-Draft:
draft-ietf-mipshop-hmipv6 ("Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Mobility Management (HMIPv6)")
Notice:
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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
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Ericsson's general patent license statement (http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/ERICSSON-General) also applies to the hmipv6 submission.

In addition, for the hmipv6 submission, if said submission is included in an IETF
standard and Ericsson has patents that are essential to the implementation of such
included submission in said standard, Ericsson is prepared to grant - on the basis
of reciprocity -a paid up, nonexclusive, royalty free license on such patents for
the purpose of implementing said standard, if and only if practiced under any
software distributed under the present terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
(http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html) or practiced under any operating system
software in which all major components of the operating system - including the
kernel, device drivers and libraries necessary to run a program - are distributed
under the terms of a license that conforms to the present OPEN SOURCE DEFINITION
(http://www.opensource.org/osd.html).

For software not distributed under the present terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html) or distributed under the terms of a
license that does not conform to the present OPEN SOURCE DEFINITION (http://www.opensource.org/osd.html), Ericsson's general patent license statement as referred to above, shall apply.

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