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Nortel Networks Updated Patent Statement pertaining to draft-chisholm-disman-active-alarm about IPR claimed in RFC 3877

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Submitted: June 10, 2005 under the rules in RFC 3979.

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

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Nortel Networks Holder legal name Nortel Networks

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application

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Gib Ritenour Holder contact name Michelle Lee
gibr@nortelnetworks.com Holder contact email mleelaw@nortel.com

Director
Technical Standards & Patent Strategy

 Holder contact info

Counsel, IP Law

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

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Internet-Draft:
draft-chisholm-disman-active-alarm ("Alarm MIB")
Notice:
No revisions for this Internet-Draft were specified in this disclosure. The Internet-Draft's revision at the time this disclosure was posted could not be determined. Contact the discloser or patent holder if there are questions about which revisions this disclosure pertains to.
RFC:
RFC3877 ("Alarm Management Information Base (MIB)")

IV. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 3979

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

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

U.S. Patent No.6,697,970

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

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Has patent pending No

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):

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See Text Below for Licensing Declaration Licensing See Text Below for Licensing Declaration

In relation to any IETF standard incorporating any such technology, Nortel
Networks hereby agrees to license on fair, reasonable, reciprocal and non-
discriminatory terms, any patent claims it owns covering such technology,
solely to the extent such technology is essential to comply with such
standard

 Licensing information, comments, notes, or URL for further information

Nortel Networks U.S. Patent No.6,697,970, entitled "generic fault management
method and system, may contain claims that are believed may be necessary for
practicing the resulting IETF Standard. In this regard, Nortel Networks will
make available licenses on fair, reasonable, reciprocal, and
non-discriminatory terms, including royalties and/or other payments, to the
extent of such necessary claims it owns for the purposes of complying with
such resulting IETF Standard.

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VI. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

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Submitter name
Submitter email

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