IPR Details
ZTE Corporation's Statement about IPR related to draft-ietf-pim-dr-improvement

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Submitted: December 7, 2017 under the rules in RFC 8179.

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

Holder legal name ZTE Corporation

II. Patent Holder's Contact for License Application
Holder contact name Mr. Dao TIAN
Holder contact email tian.dao@zte.com.cn
Holder contact info

55 keji road south,
Nanshan District,
Shenzhen
China

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

Internet-Draft:
draft-ietf-pim-dr-improvement ("Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) Designated Router (DR) Improvement")
Revisions:
03

IV. Disclosure of Patent Information
i.e., patents or patent applications required to be disclosed by RFC 8179

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

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

CN101729311B granted on 9th January 2013.

B. Does this disclosure relate to an unpublished pending patent application?:

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):

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

If any claim of any patent owned or controlled by ZTE or its Affiliates is essential on a technical ground to the standard adopted by IETF, ZTE on behalf of itself and its Affiliates hereby covenant not to assert any such claim against any party for making, using, selling, offering for sale or importing a product that implements the corresponding part of the standard. However, nothing herein shall preclude ZTE or any of its Affiliates from asserting the above mentioned patent claims against any party that asserts directly or indirectly a patent it owns or controls against ZTE and/or its Affiliates, or against any products of ZTE or its Affiliates either alone or in combination with other products.
FRAND royalty-bearing licenses will be available to anyone who prefers that option.

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.

VI. Contact Information of Submitter of this Form

Submitter name Mr. Dao TIAN
Submitter email tian.dao@zte.com.cn

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