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Adobe Systems Incorporated's Statement about IPR claimed in draft-zilles-pdf

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

Holder legal name Adobe Systems

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application
Holder contact name Larry Masinter
Holder contact email masinter@adobe.com
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Adobe Systems Incorporated makes intellectual property claims and
grants rights, related to PDF, in the PDF Reference, Fourth
Edition[1] as amended by errata[2]. In turn, that text
makes reference to the Adobe Patent Clarification Notice[3].

The claims and grants of [1] as amended by [2] (with references
to 'this book' appropriately modified), are reproduced in Part 1
below. The section of [3] related to PDF is reproduced in Part 2
below.

References:

[1] Adobe Systems Incorporated, "PDF Reference, Fourth Edition",
Version 1.5, August 2003.
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/pdf/specifications.jsp

[2] Adobe Systems Incorporated, "Errata for PDF Reference, Fourth
Edition", December 2003.
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/sdk/public/docs/errata.txt

[3] Adobe Systems Incorporated, "Adobe Patent Clarification Notice".
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/legalnotices.jsp

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Part 1 (adapted from [1] as modified by [2]):

The general idea of using an interchange format for electronic
documents is in the public domain. Anyone is free to devise a set
of unique data structures and operators that define an interchange
format for electronic documents. However, Adobe Systems
Incorporated owns the copyright for the particular data structures
and operators and the written specification constituting the
interchange format called the Portable Document Format. Thus, these
elements of the Portable Document Format may not be copied without
Adobe's permission.

Adobe will enforce its copyright. Adobe's intention is to maintain
the integrity of the Portable Document Format standard. This
enables the public to distinguish between the Portable Document
Format and other interchange formats for electronic documents.
However, Adobe desires to promote the use of the Portable Document
Format for information interchange among diverse products and
applications. Accordingly, Adobe gives anyone copyright permission,
subject to the conditions stated below, to:

* Prepare files whose content conforms to the Portable Document
Format

* Write drivers and applications that produce output represented in
the Portable Document Format

* Write software that accepts input in the form of the Portable
Document Format and displays, prints, or otherwise interprets
the contents

* Copy Adobe's copyrighted list of data structures and operators,
as well as the example code and PostScript language function
definitions in the written specification, to the extent
necessary to use the Portable Document Format for the purposes
above.

The conditions of such copyright permission are:

* Authors of software that accepts input in the form of the
Portable Document Format must make reasonable efforts to ensure
that the software they create respects the access permissions
and permissions controls listed in Table 3.20 of the PDF
Reference[1], to the extent that they are used in any particular
document. These access permissions express the rights that the
document's author has granted to users of the document. It is
the responsibility of Portable Document Format consuming
software to respect the author's intent.

* Anyone who uses the copyrighted list of data structures and
operators, as stated above, must include an appropriate
copyright notice.

This limited right to use the copyrighted list of data structures
and operators does not include the right to copy the PDF Reference,
other copyrighted material from Adobe, or the software in any of
Adobe's products that use the Portable Document Format, in whole or
in part, nor does it include the right to use any Adobe patents,
except as may be permitted by an official Adobe Patent
Clarification Notice [3].

Acrobat, Acrobat Capture, Adobe Reader, ePaper, the "Get Adobe
Reader" Web logo, the "Adobe PDF" Web logo, and all other
trademarks, service marks, and logos used by Adobe (the "Marks")
are the registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems
Incorporated in the United States and other countries. Nothing in
the PDF Reference is intended to grant you any right or license to
use the Marks for any purpose.

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Part 2: Patent Clarification Notice: Reading and Writing PDF Files
(exact quote of [3])

Adobe has a number of patents covering technology that is disclosed
in the Portable Document Format (PDF) Specification, version 1.3
and later, as documented in PDF Reference and associated Technical
Notes (the "Specification"). Adobe desires to promote the use of PDF
for information interchange among diverse products and
applications.

Accordingly, the following patents are licensed on a royalty-free,
non-exclusive basis for the term of each patent and for the sole
purpose of developing software that produces, consumes, and
interprets PDF files that are compliant with the Specification:

U.S. Patent Numbers:

* 5,634,064
* 5,737,599
* 5,781,785
* 5,819,301
* 6,028,583
* 6,289,364
* 6,421,460

In addition, the following patent is licensed on a royalty-free,
non-exclusive basis for its term and for the sole purpose of
developing software that produces PDF files that are compliant with
the Specification (specifically excluding, however, software that
consumes and/or interprets PDF files):

U.S. Patent Numbers:

* 5,860,074

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