IPR Details
Sun Microsystem's Patent Claim on CALSCH

• Disclosure
• History

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

Holder legal name	Sun Microsystems, Inc.

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application

Holder contact name	Erwin J. Basinski, Esq.
Holder contact email	hal.jespersen@Sun.COM
Holder contact info	901 San Antonio Road Mail Stop PAL1-521, Palo Alto, CA 94303

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

IV. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 2026

A. For granted patents or published pending patent applications, please provide the following information:

Patent, Serial, Publication, Registration, or Application/File number(s)

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

Has patent pending	Yes

V. 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	one selected]
Licensing information, comments, notes, or URL for further information	This is to advise the IETF that Sun Microsystems, Inc. (SUN) is willing to grant licenses under our patents which may be applicable to the calendaring and scheduling (C&S) standards being developed in the IETF. In this regard, if implementations of the C&S specifications from the CALSCH committee infringe patents issued to SUN, SUN agrees upon written request to grant a non-exclusive license under such patents on a nondiscriminatory basis and on reasonable terms and conditions. SUN further advises the IETF that SUN and IBM Corporation are joint owners of a patent application pending that specifically relates to the Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar). The full text of the application and allowed claims may be viewed at URL http://playground.sun.com/pub/cal-patent/. Because of the recent discovery of additional prior art (the Chronos specification--ftp://boombox.micro.umn.edu/pub/ietf/), SUN has filed a Petition to Withdraw the application from issue in order to permit the Patent Office to consider this newly discovered art. As a result, the allowed claims will be reexamined in light of this art. Regardless of the outcome of this reconsideration, SUN is willing to grant a no-cost license to any person who would infringe this patent solely by implementing the iCalendar specification, assuming that the iCalendar specification is adopted as an IETF Standards-track RFC.

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VI. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name	Hal Jespersen
Submitter email	hal.jespersen@Sun.COM

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